GNU bug report logs - #50674
Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 50674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:14:01 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>:

> Personally, I'd rather create a new file for small modes than go down
> this rabbit hole.  generic-x.el is hardly the best library name or
> location.

Thinking about this a bit more, what is the problem with just keeping
this in its own file?  It is fairly self-contained and not really
related to anything else.  If the worry is that it will clutter
lisp/textmodes, perhaps we could add a new directory where such
"small" modes could go.

In general, I'm not a fan of mega-files with many bits and pieces in
them -- see for example time.el that for some reason contains both
'display-time' and 'world-clock'.  The latter could easily be in its
own file instead, and from working in that file I can say that it
would have been easier to understand and modify if it was.  ("Large"
files is a common practice in ELisp, but not in many other programming
languages AFAIK.)

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.