Re: deriving from prog-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> Also how about making sure that more programming modes are derived from
>>>> prog-mode?
>>>
>>> That would be nice, yes.  Feel free to install such changes.
>>
>> Cited patch checked in.
>>
>> It looks like the only remaining stragglers in lisp/progmodes are
>> cperl-mode.el (which, AFAIR, is not maintained here) and delphi.el
>> (which passes an extra `skip-initial-parsing' to `delphi-mode'.
>
> I've fixed delphi-mode.  Not sure about the best thing for cperl-mode;
> due to its maintenance baggage, maybe we should just add
> bidi-paragraph-direction to the function body instead of using
> define-derived-mode.

If you go that way, please also make it run `prog-mode-hook`.