Re: python-mode patch

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:13:11 -0400
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

#>     The other reason, probably even important, is that there is another
#>     python-mode, at http://sf.net/projects/python-mode
#> 
#> Would the authors of that program like to contribute?

I am not sure, but I may try asking them... unless somebody who knows
them would like to do that?

Sourceforge lists the following people as developers: Barry A. Warsaw,
Edward Loper, Kurt B. Kaiser, Ken Manheimer and Skip Montanaro.

#>     It would be good to have unambiguous way of talking about those modes.
#>     Does anyone have a suggestion how to avoid confusion?
#> 
#>     Would saying "GNU python-mode" make sense?
#> 
#> That would imply that the mode which is not installed in Emacs is
#> "the" python-mode, and ours plays second fiddle.

Well, that's certainly true -- at least at the moment...

Also, it might be worthwhile to help distinguishing the modes at least
by having different indicator in the modeline -- currently both use
"Python" so it is even nontrivial for users to determine which one are
they actually running...

Does Emacs have any guidelines as to how modeline indicator should
look like? Is there something we could use instead of "Python"?
"Python-Mode"? "PYTHON"? "python"? Something else?

-- 
 Best wishes,
   Slawomir Nowaczyk
     ( address@hidden )

Avoid metaphors like the plague.