Re: Creating new major mode

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Paulo Jorge Matos <pocm@soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> When should generic-modes or derived-modes be created?

Generally, I suggest you just derive any mode from fundamental-mode.
That takes care of most the house keeping, and you'll only need to add
what you actually want.

Maybe you should look at more recent and smaller modes than lisp-mode to
learn.  Look around in the Emacs Wiki.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher