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Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:11 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I believe the issue is broader than m-c-f-l and cc-mode. The difference
> between an Emacs release cycle (where Emacs provides a built-in support for
> some languages, like cc-mode, python, ruby-mode, etc.) and the release cycle
> of a language can lead to a long delay to get things right (such as font
> locking). Having the language support delivered via a package manager makes
> the updates less dependent of release cycles.

So, distributing CC-mode as a GNU ELPA package (like we already do for
python.el, org-mode, and a few other bundled packages) would solve this
problem, right?


        Stefan




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