Re: sml-mode

2001-10-28 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-26 14:14]: > On the other hand, maybe policy changes should be filed as bugs > against emacsen-common? Thanks for your suggestion, it is done for the present case. See Bug#117359. -- Rafael

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-26 Thread Colin Walters
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about the patch below? (I just did some cut & paste from the > present thread. Colin and Peter will recognize their words.) Your patch looks good to me. But, I think the Emacs policy is technically frozen, because it's conceptually part of

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-26 05:11]: > > > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.] > > > > Agreed. > > What about the patch below? (I just did some cut & paste

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-26 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-26 05:11]: > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.] > > Agreed. What about the patch below? (I just did some cut & paste from the present thread. Colin and Peter will

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-26 Thread Colin Walters
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.] Agreed. > Hmm, well, there are /many/ emacs add-ons. Each individual user > might want some particular add-on. If I were administering a site > with thousands of users, I would

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-25 Thread Jens Peter Secher
The *sml-mode* package does thus: 1) It installs the following into /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50sml-mode.el: (setq load-path (cons (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name flavor) "/site-lisp/sml-mode") load-path)) . 2) It uses *debconf* to ask¹ whether *sml-

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-24 Thread Colin Walters
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The general rule is to prompt if general setup overrides Emacs > behaviour. So don't prompt if no version of Emacs support this > mode, but prompt otherwise (e.g. auctex overrides regular > latex-mode, so it prompts). Ah, I see. That makes sense.

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Walters wrote: > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: sml-mode > > Architecture: all > > Depends: emacs20 | emacsen, debconf > > Description: A major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML. > > It provides syntax highlighting and automatic indentation and > > comes wi

Re: sml-mode

2001-10-24 Thread Colin Walters
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: sml-mode > Architecture: all > Depends: emacs20 | emacsen, debconf > Description: A major Emacs mode for editing Standard ML. > It provides syntax highlighting and automatic indentation and > comes with sml-proc which allows interaction wi