Re: Incorporate package macrostep into Emacs core

[Philip Kaludercic]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>> (add-hook 'c-mode-hook #'macrostep-c-mode-hook)
>>
>> This part is suspicious.  First of all, it looks like one is adding a
>> hook to a hook, but this would unconditionally modify
>> c-mode-hook, which I don't think is reliable.  Can we find some other
>> way to update the variables, depending on the major mode?  E.g. in
>> macrostep.el one could try to intern (format "macrostep-%s-init"
>> major-mode) and check if the symbol is fboundp?
>
> Also, it would be nice to support C++ and Objc, which we have in Emacs
> (c-mode-common-hook).

>From what I understand, this feature is based on cmacexp, which in turn
just uses cpp.  If something like this feature should be supported for
C++ and Objc, then the functionality should first be added to cmacexp or
something analogous (as it is my understanding that this is currently
not the case).

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