Re: Heuristics for: is a major-mode a "programming language" mode?

[Tim X]

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:

> I want a certain keypress act as forward-sexp in "programming
> language" modes, and as forward-sentence (sp?) in other modes
> (likewise for go-to-function-begin (sp?) and forward-paragraph (sp?)).
>
> So there must be some code which decides "which type" is the given
> major mode.  I would prefer the bulk of the decision to be made
> programmatically, THEN let the user override if the auto-choice was
> wrong.  Anyone with ideas how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ilya
>
> P.S.  In addition to sexp/sentence and function/paragraph, are there
>       other "merges" one can do to do navigation?

Hi Ilya,

Not sure if this will help, but in current emacs 24, there is note in
the NEWS file about a new mode called prog-mode, which is supposed to be
a parent mode for programming modes. I believe the supplied prog modes
in emacs have/are being updated to be derived from this mode. 

The main role of this mode appears to be to run the hook prog-mode-hook.
Maybe this could be useful?

Tim

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