Re: c-add-language base-mode parameter does not work

[David G. <dg...@in...>]

Martin Stjernholm wrote:
> David Gay <dg...@in...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The unless statement at the end of c-add-language:
>>   (unless (get base-mode 'c-mode-prefix)
>>     (error "Unknown base mode `%s'" base-mode)
>>     (put mode 'c-fallback-mode base-mode)))
>>
>>should be:
>>   (if (not (get base-mode 'c-mode-prefix))
>>     (error "Unknown base mode `%s'" base-mode)
>>    (put mode 'c-fallback-mode base-mode)))
> 
> 
> Thanks. It was actually only a parenthesis that had gotten wrong.
> 
> 
>>Not a bug, but sort-of annoying: the base-mode argument to
>>c-add-language does not work for the c-operators constant if you're
>>based on C or C++ (it explicitly tests for the current language).
> 
> 
> I'd say that's a bug too. Should be solved now. Thanks again.
> 
> 
>>David Gay - who just wrote a mode based on c-mode ;-)
> 
> 
> Nice to see someone using that feature. If you notice more rough edges
> please tell me; as you've probably understood it's not very well
> tested yet, and there likely are more aspects of the CC Mode internals
> that ought to be controlled this way.

Thanks. It seems to work quite well for my language (but it's only a fairly 
small depature from C).

David Gay