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Go(lang) mode for XEmacs?

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Juergen Nickelsen

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Aug 25, 2012, 6:37:14 AM8/25/12
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Recently I started to learn the programming language Go; highly
recommended, by the way -- for anyone who hasn't tried it yet, longs
for a better C, and has been disappointed by C++ and Java, this one
may be it. But I digress.

There is a Go mode for GNU Emacs, but it doesn't work well with
XEmacs. For instance, it already throws an error with M-; , so it is
not really usable with XEmacs. Before I put much work into it
myself, I'd like to know:

Is there already a Go mode for XEmacs, or is anyone working on it?

If there is, I'd love to help; I am an XEmacs user since Lucid 19.4
and I have some Emacs Lisp experience. My experience with
implementing language modes is next to nil, though.

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Mike Kupfer

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Aug 25, 2012, 1:42:03 PM8/25/12
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Juergen Nickelsen writes:

> Is there already a Go mode for XEmacs, or is anyone working on it?

There was some discussion on this back in May. I don't know if the
work was completed, though. I recommend contacting Mats Lidell[1] to
see what the current status is.

mike

Footnotes:
[1] http://list-archive.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2012-May/022866.html

Juergen Nickelsen

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Aug 26, 2012, 5:52:29 AM8/26/12
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Mike Kupfer <m.ku...@acm.org> writes:

>> Is there already a Go mode for XEmacs, or is anyone working on it?
>
> There was some discussion on this back in May. I don't know if the
> work was completed, though. I recommend contacting Mats Lidell[1] to
> see what the current status is.

Did that -- thanks for the pointer!

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