Re: a mode for algol 68

[Omar Polo]

On 2023/11/30 07:10:20 +0000, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> writes:
> 
> > (please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list)
> >
> > Two years ago I started hacking on Jose E. Marchesi' algol-mode (that
> > I've renamed a68-mode) while I was playing with the algol68g compiler.
> > Truth to be told, I think I've spent more time hacking on the emacs mode
> > that with the language itself, but anyway...
> >
> > I haven't touched the mode any more for the last two years, and I doubt
> > I'll hack again on it in the future.  Although it's almost finished,
> > there remains issues with the indentation and font-locking in some
> > cases.
> >
> > My hope would be that some friendly hacker would take interest in
> > maintaining it and maybe even distribute it in ELPA / NonGNU Elpa.
> 
> I think it would be very nice to have this added to GNU ELPA.  If the
> code works (and I see it isn't too much), it shouldn't be too much of a
> maintenance burden, so I'd be fine with helping out.
> 
> > On the copyright side, I don't know Jose E. Marchesi and I copied
> > initial the code from some random github repository.  Not great, I know,
> > but it was the only major mode for algol68.  However, I *do* have an FSF
> > copyright assignment and I ended up rewriting almost all of the code in
> > the end.  I paied attention to do the 'initial import' with the original
> > code as-is and do my changes on top.  It's 53 commits in total.
> 
> I cannot evaluate this myself, do you a link to the original GitHub
> repository?

I took the code from
https://github.com/lachrymology/me/blob/master/.emacs.d/extras/algol-mode.el
but upon a closer look it seems to originate from here:
https://www.jemarch.net/algol68.html

I'm cc'ing Jose E. Marchesi using the mail found on (presumibly) their
website.  Having a @gnu.org account makes me think that there shouldn't
be copyright issues :-)

I apologize for not searching better initially, I should have contacted
Marchesi in the first place.  I somehow have completely missed their
website.

> > The code is available here for browsing here:
> > <https://git.omarpolo.com/?action=summary&path=a68-mode.git>
> > and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via
> > <ssh://anon@omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git> or with HTTPS via
> > <https://git.omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git>.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Omar Polo