Re: [jed-users] Jed modes

[Guenter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18.03.17, Jay Belanger wrote:

> I was going through the old maillists, and I came across 
> m_history, which allows you to have different minibuffer histories for
> different prompts.  It's something I can use, but I hadn't seen it before; 
> it turns out it isn't listed on the mode list at http://jedmodes.sourceforge.net/
> but it is at http://jedmodes.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jedmodes/mode/.

As this is not my mode, I don't know why it misses the metadata file and
entry in the modes list.

> Should all the modes be listed on the mode list? 

Generally, no, not necessarily. 

* Some interdependent *.sl files appear together in one jedmodes/mode/*
  directory and do not have a separate meta data (dcdata) file.

* Some modes are for internal/special use:

> jedmodes
  is a developer tool only linked from http://jedmodes.sourceforge.net/doc/
  
> kp_keydefs
  is probably obsoleted by x-keydefs and only on jedmodes by accident.

> tests
  is a collection of unit tests for some of the jedmodes modes.  

...

> On the list, but not in jedmodes.cvs (and so, apparently, not in the
> jed-extras package available for Debian):

* Some modes are only listed in the repository but kept the sources elsewhere.

> latex-jlm

* Some modes have a separate archive file and don't use the CVS repository

> apache
> awk
> kcomplete
> outline
> rmail


The jed-extra package would require some download and setup script (or
manual action) for these.

Günter
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