Thanks Sami. Ok, make sense. I will add some enabling code that can be used vis the customization interface, similar to e.g. the variable `ff-paths-install'.
I will move alls etuup within quack.el to a new function which will be invoked when this variable is set. Peter Sami Liedes <slie...@cc.hut.fi> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:20:44PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Sami Liedes <slie...@cc.hut.fi> wrote: > > > > > Package: emacs-goodies-el > > > Version: 30.0-1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The quack package for scheme programming is enabled by default even in > > > the non-aggressive state. It however is quite a bit different from > > > emacs' default scheme mode. Hence the package probably should only be > > > enabled in aggressive mode. (Moreover, I couldn't figure out in 15 > > > minutes how to disable quack and use Emacs' default scheme mode.) > > > > > > Sami > > > > Thanks for the report. What is the main issue? It is the following > > that should be optional? > > > > (add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook 'quack-scheme-mode-hookfunc) > > (add-hook 'inferior-scheme-mode-hook 'quack-inferior-scheme-mode-hookfunc) > > > > As I understand it, quack only adds to scheme-mode. It doesn't replace > > it. What is it adding that is counter-productive? (Note that I have > > never used it or scheme-mode). > > Well, I haven't inspected in detail, but have noticed at least a few > small differences: > > 1. The determination of which program to run for scheme is different. > I.e. the setting for emacs' default scheme mode does not have an > effect in quack. (Also it seems to remember, sometimes weirdly > wrong, what my previous scheme program was.) > > 2. The default syntax highlighting seems to be quite different (less > things highlighted). That's configurable though. Anyway it seems it > overrides many settings of emacs' default scheme mode without > warning (it took me quite long to figure out what the problem in #1 > was). > > 3. Don't know how important this is, but for example C-u 100 ( works > differently :-) In emacs' default scheme mode it works, in quack it > fails after one paren with "Unbalanced paretheses". > > Generally just the problem was a kind of surprise when many things in > our scheme course didn't work in Emacs in the way they had described. > But the course personnel guessed (correctly) that the problem was > quack, which they described as "weird". > > OTOH I guess a lot of people like it, so it might be sensible to have > it on by default (though I'd like a way to disable it, but now I know > what hooks to look at). But yeah, I think it changes the default > behavior incompatibly in at least some respects. > > Sami -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
