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Re: Core features needed for a lang-mode. Needed documentation?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Core features needed for a lang-mode. Needed documentation? |
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Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:59:40 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:45:17 +0800
> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
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> In developing gnu-apl-mode, I have successively added more and more
> features that people seems to expect to exist in any language mode. My
> problem is that I'm a newbie at Emacs with only 20+ years of experience
> using it, so of course I don't know all things a lang-mode can do.
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> After thinking that my mode was pretty complete, I discovered things like
> imenu and speedbar which I had never used, but is actually pretty cool when
> support was added for it.
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> Is there a comprehensive documentation anywhere which details all features
> that such a mode can (should) implement?
There's some documentation in the node "Major Mode Conventions" in the
ELisp manual.