Re: Incorporate package macrostep into Emacs core

[Gerd Möllmann]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> 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.  

What's the problem using cpp?