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Re: emacs mode line suggestions
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Richard Riley |
Subject: |
Re: emacs mode line suggestions |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:54:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
> Xah wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 6:33 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>>> But if a user is interested in working with Emacs rather than just
>>> playing with it, she will know the suffix that will trigger the
>>> correct mode.
>>
>> You missed the point. When a programer work with multiple langs, and
>> when he create a buffer for scratch purposes, there is a need to
>> switch to switch mode.
>
> If he creates it then he will have to name it. Let the mode depend on
> the name. I can see (sort of) why assembler might need to be in a .c
> buffer but you certainly don't need text blocks from many different
> languages in the same temp buffer, do you? Why? On the off chance that
> you really do need all of them then it seems that some new mixed mode
> should be designed.
Practically any web page in existence? mixture of xhtml, php, javascript
etc. Mind you that web thingy, it will never catch on :-; nxhtml works
well for that. I would certainly have used the scratch more if the
language mode was a click away - now its second nature to do it using
M-x.
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, (continued)
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/17
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/11/17
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/17
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Kevin Rodgers, 2008/11/18
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/11/18
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- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Fabrice Niessen, 2008/11/18
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- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Xah, 2008/11/17
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, B. T. Raven, 2008/11/17
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Xah, 2008/11/18
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, B. T. Raven, 2008/11/18
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions,
Richard Riley <=
- Re: emacs mode line suggestions, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/17