Re: Emacs learning curve

[David Kastrup]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>> Well, cedet has no discernible documentation.  It has no info file.
>> semantics has an info file.  It talks about bovine and wisent parser
>> generators.  It mentions their source files.  They don't exist.  Wisent
>> files presumably have an extension of .wy.  The semantics documentation
>> claims that there is a mode for creating them.  Opening a file with .wy
>> extension puts it in fundamental mode.  There are no interactive
>> commands autoloaded starting with wisent- or bovin that would have
>> anything to do with writing language support using
>> Cedet/semantics/whatever.
>
> When the integration of CEDET was discussed, it was decided to leave the
> grammar development upstream. See
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/115053/focus=115054
>
> People who want to extend CEDET should always use its CVS version.

This means that supporting new languages with CEDET means _extending_
CEDET, and extending CEDET is apparently not possible with the CEDET
extract included in Emacs.

Whatever happened to "the preferred form for modification"?

> It seems this fact is not reflected in the documentation.

Nor is it reflected in the beliefs of the people who state on-list that
since the time CEDET was "included" in Emacs distribution, it has become
inaccurate to state that Emacs does not come with a unified approach to
creating new language modes.

-- 
David Kastrup