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python.el versus python-mode.el [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22]
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
python.el versus python-mode.el [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22] |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:39:50 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
"Ken Manheimer" wrote:
> i do hope someone could describe the differences. i'm curious why
> something besides python-mode.el was even necessary in the first
> place. just copyright assignment obstacles?
I know nothing about either mode, but the author of python.el has a ~
1000 line patch for python-mode.
http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/python-mode.el.diff
See also the comments at the start of python.el:
http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/python.el
;; There is another Python mode, python-mode.el, used by XEmacs and
;; maintained with Python. That isn't covered by an FSF copyright
;; assignment, unlike this code, and seems not to be well-maintained
;; for Emacs (though I've submitted fixes). This mode is rather
;; simpler and is better in other ways. In particular, using the
;; syntax functions with text properties maintained by font-lock makes
;; it more correct with arbitrary string and comment contents.
;; This doesn't implement all the facilities of python-mode.el. Some
;; just need doing, e.g. catching exceptions in the inferior Python
;; buffer (but see M-x pdb for debugging). [Actually, the use of
;; `compilation-shell-minor-mode' now is probably enough for that.]
;; Others don't seem appropriate. For instance,
;; `forward-into-nomenclature' should be done separately, since it's
;; not specific to Python, and I've installed a minor mode to do the
;; job properly in Emacs 23. [CC mode 5.31 contains an incompatible
;; feature, `c-subword-mode' which is intended to have a similar
;; effect, but actually only affects word-oriented keybindings.]
;; Other things seem more natural or canonical here, e.g. the
;; {beginning,end}-of-defun implementation dealing with nested
;; definitions, and the inferior mode following `cmuscheme'. (The
;; inferior mode can find the source of errors from
;; `python-send-region' & al via `compilation-shell-minor-mode'.)
;; There is (limited) symbol completion using lookup in Python and
;; Eldoc support also using the inferior process. Successive TABs
;; cycle between possible indentations for the line.
;; Even where it has similar facilities, this mode is incompatible
;; with python-mode.el in some respects. For instance, various key
;; bindings are changed to obey Emacs conventions.
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, (continued)
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/16
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Piet van Oostrum, 2008/02/17
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, David Kastrup, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Ken Manheimer, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Nick Roberts, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Ken Manheimer, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Nick Roberts, 2008/02/15
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Ken Manheimer, 2008/02/15
- python.el versus python-mode.el [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22],
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22, Nick Roberts, 2008/02/19
- pdbtrack [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22], Glenn Morris, 2008/02/19
- Re: pdbtrack [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22], Nick Roberts, 2008/02/19
- Re: pdbtrack, Glenn Morris, 2008/02/19
- Re: pdbtrack [was Re: python.el fixes for Emacs 22], Ken Manheimer, 2008/02/21
- Re: pdbtrack, Glenn Morris, 2008/02/21
- Re: pdbtrack, Ken Manheimer, 2008/02/22
- Re: pdbtrack, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/22