Subject: Re: bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:03:01 -0400

> How do you suggest to do that in a concise enough way appropriate for
> a doc string?

See patch below.

> >>  (define-derived-mode lisp-mode lisp-data-mode "Lisp"
> >> -  "Major mode for editing Lisp code for Lisps other than GNU Emacs Lisp.
> >> +  "Major mode for editing Common Lisp code.

> Did lisp-mode.el changed significantly during those 20 years?  did
> Maclisp change significantly?  If not, we don't have a problem more
> that we had it back then, do we?

The problem is indeed not new, it's the same as 20 years ago.
It's just that noone bothered to fix it.

        Stefan

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
index 59325d647d..99bf1a98c2 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ lisp-mode-menu
      :help "Run an inferior Lisp process, input and output via buffer `*inferior-lisp*'"]))
 
 (define-derived-mode lisp-mode lisp-data-mode "Lisp"
-  "Major mode for editing Lisp code for Lisps other than GNU Emacs Lisp.
+  "Major mode for editing Common Lisp code.
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