[elpa] elpa-admin 20cbb20 002/357: * sml-mode.texi: somewhat updated the doc.

[Stefan Monnier]

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commit 20cbb2027043300273daa37bf4cb75feb6203c48
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    * sml-mode.texi:  somewhat updated the doc.
    * release 3.9.3
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 README | 160 ++++++-----------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -1,153 +1,19 @@
-SML-MODE (3.3b) -- Major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML.
+SML-MODE is a major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML.
+It provides syntax highlighting and automatic indentation and
+comes with sml-proc which allows interaction with an inferior SML
+interactive loop.
 
-  3.3(beta) because i really am looking at the indentation algorithm,
-  but the new features mentioned below are stable -- modulo bugs.
+This release should work on any recent version of Emacs or XEmacs.
+If it doesn't: complain.
 
-Files:
+Some more or less out of date documentation can be found in TeXinfo format.
 
-  sml-mode.el     (SML mode elisp code)
-  sml-proc.el     (ML interaction code, defaults to SML/NJ(0.93))
-  sml-hilite.el   (hilit19 functions)
-  sml-font.el     (font-lock functions)
-  sml-menus.el    (Simple menus)
+Check the INSTALL file for installation instructions.
+Check the NEWS file for a list of changes in this version.
+Check the BUGS and TODO file before sending me bug reports and requests for
+enhancements.
 
-  sml-poly-ml.el  (Additional library code to run Poly/ML)
-  sml-mosml.el    (Additional library code to run Moscow ML)
+Send any complaint/question/praise/ice-cream to me,
 
-  sml-mode.info   (Softcopy manual -- Info for (X)Emacs19)
-  sml-site.el     (Simple, system-wide installation)
 
-Extras:
-
-  sml-mode.dvi    (Hardcopy manual)
-
-Warning:
-
-  Tried and sort of tested on GNU Emacs 19.3{3,4} and XEmacs 19.14.
-
-  XEmacs 19.11 is known to hang on sending regions to the interaction
-  buffer -- so leave the variable SML-TEMP-THRESHOLD = 0.
-
-System Installation Guide:
-
-  If you're installing this for others in the Emacs hierarchy, either
-
-    go to the site-lisp directory and unpack the tar file there, 
-
-    or create a subdirectory, say site-lisp/sml-mode, and copy at
-    least the sml*.el files into it.
-
-  In either case move or copy the file sml-site.el into the site-lisp
-  directory itself (or some other place that's on the user's default
-  load-path) and read and edit this file. All that's really needed is
-  to ensure that Emacs can find the sml*.el files and the .info file.
-
-  Tell your eager users to
-
-  (requite 'sml-site) 
-
-  in their .emacses. Point them to the help file. At your option, byte
-  compile the sml*.el files (and sml-site.el too, if you like).
-
-Private Installation Guide:
-
-  If you are having to install his in your home directory, say, create
-  a directory like "/home/xxx/lib/emacs/sml-mode", if your login name
-  is xxx, and copy the sml-*.el files to there. Then put:
-  
-  (setq load-path (cons "/home/xxx/lib/emacs/sml-mode" load-path))
-  (autoload 'sml-mode "sml-mode" "Major mode for editing ML programs." t)
-
-  in your .emacs file. Add:
-
-  (setq auto-mode-alist
-        (append '(("\\.sml$" . sml-mode) 
-                  ("\\.sig$" . sml-mode) 
-                  ("\\.ML$"  . sml-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
-
-  to your .emacs so that whenever you visit a file with one of these
-  extensions you will automatically be placed in sml-mode.
-
-  Put the info file (sml-mode.info) somewhere convenient like
-  "/home/xxx/lib/emacs/sml-mode/sml-mode.info", and add
-
-  (setq sml-mode-info "/home/xxx/lib/emacs/sml-mode/sml-mode.info")
-
-  again to your .emacs -- this gives access to on-line help. This help
-  file gives lots of tips about configuring SML mode to suit your
-  preferences: C-c C-i will get you there from SML mode.
-
-  If you want SML mode to speak to Moscow ML or Poly/ML instead of
-  SML/NJ, just add something like this to your .emacs:
-
-  (defun my-mosml-setup () "Configure inferior SML mode for Moscow ML"
-    (load-library "sml-mosml"))
-  (add-hook 'inferior-sml-load-hook 'my-mosml-setup)
-
-  so that when you M-x sml you'll get mosml instead.
-
-New in SML mode Version 3.3 (feedback welcomed on this):
-
-  1
-
-  implemented some multi-frame handling capabilities, specifically so 
-  sml runs in a dedicated window. this is more complex than it needs to
-  be because of XEmacs...
-
-  the variable SML-DEDICATED-FRAME defaults to t if running under a
-  window system; set it to nil in SML-LOAD-HOOK if you want the old
-  split window behaviour back.
-
-  2
-
-  debugged SML-NEXT-ERROR a bit, and improved it to echo the error
-  message in the minibuffer (if possible) and highlight the region in
-  which the error was found (if a suitable character range was given).
-
-  the variable SML-ERROR-OVERLAY controls whether or not to highlight
-  (default is yes); set this to nil in SML-MODE-HOOK to switch this
-  off. 
-
-  SML-NEXT-ERROR won't always raise the inferior ML buffer's frame; it
-  only does so if there's no window already showing the buffer, or if
-  there's an error message it can't understand. i think!
-
-  3
-
-  support for Moscow ML -- see sml-mosml.el.
-
-  4
-
-  forms (aka, templates or macros) insertion semantics have changed
-  because there were bugs. maybe there still are, but anyway: by
-  default C-c C-m inserts the macro at point, C-u C-c C-m will do a
-  newline-and-indent before inserting the macro.
-
-  abstractions are history, and you can play with extending the
-  collection of builtin macros to your heart's content. lookup the
-  function SML-ADDTO-FORMS-ALIST, and the variable SML-FORMS-ALIST.
-
-  5
-
-  drag-and-droppishness, without the drop: SML-DRAG-MOUSE is bound to
-  M-S-down-mouse-1; if you drag the mouse over a region it will be
-  magically sucked into the ML buffer (like C-c C-r, only you don't
-  have to C-@ first). this might be flakey as it heavily depends on
-  the underlying mouse-drag/track-mouse semantics of the various
-  Emacses out there. can't do much about that, sorry.
-
-  6
-
-  anything else i've forgotten already!
-
-To Do:
-
-  0
-
-  indentation is hopeless for sequential code (semicolons). this needs
-  attention; indeed all the indentation code does. Ian Zimmerman's very
-  excellent (looking) indentation code for caml-mode may point the way
-  forward. or we all go over to programming in Lisp instead of ML...
-
-Matthew Morley <mjm@scs.leeds.ac.uk>
-05/97
+       Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/emacs/sml@tequila.cs.yale.edu>