Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:37:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: FDP Primer: emacs and vim Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307212109460.42268@wonkity.com>
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Multiple people have said the emacs configuration shown in the FDP Primer is outdated. Of particular interest is the section at the end of the emacs chapter: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/psgml-mode.html There is also a vim configuration shown in the Writing Style chapter on indentation, currently 12.3.3: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-guide.html That also looks outdated (sgml rather than xml). The proposal is two parts: First, remove the "Using sgml-mode with Emacs" chapter altogether. Teaching users to use an editor is out of scope of the FDP Primer. (And reputed to be outdated, but so far emacs users have not volunteered to update it.) This may have been a big deal back when it was added, but there are multiple XML-capable editors now, and their documentation will be more helpful to the user than a rarely-updated section in the FDP Primer. Second, move the small configuration file entries for both editors into a new "Editor Configuration" appendix. This will be easier for users to find and easier to keep updated. So: emacs users, please provide a modern configuration for emacs. vim users, provide an updated configuration for vim. Thanks!
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