Bug 276641

Summary: suggestion for ocaml emacs code
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Tromey <tromey>
Component: ocamlAssignee: Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom Tromey 2007-09-04 16:31:37 UTC
Currently ocaml-emacs installs various .el files
in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp.  However, it does not arrange
for these to be used when editing ocaml code in Emacs.
I have two suggestions here:

1. Make a subdirectory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/caml and
   put caml*.el there.  This will still work just as well
   (due to subdirs.el) and means less clutter in the top directory.

2. Take the 4 lines of emacs lisp code from
   /usr/share/doc/ocaml-emacs-3.09.3/README and put them
   into a new file, /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/caml.el
   This way caml mode will be used automatically when appropriate.

Comment 1 Gérard Milmeister 2007-09-04 17:32:13 UTC
I will look at it, whenever a new build for ocaml is due.

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2008-02-21 12:40:14 UTC
Tuareg-mode is an altogether better OCaml emacs mode.  It's in Fedora >= 8
(as emacs-tuareg or xemacs-tuareg) and complies with the Fedora emacs
packaging guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Emacs).

See bug 433443.


Comment 3 Gérard Milmeister 2008-02-21 13:19:58 UTC
Should we then simply remove the ocaml-emacs package?

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2008-02-21 14:12:07 UTC
It's a strange situation because INRIA are effectively maintaining
two emacs modes for OCaml.  That seems to indicate that some people
must prefer the ocaml-emacs mode, so probably we should leave it.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 07:33:23 UTC
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Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2008-04-04 10:18:27 UTC
People can easily configure their .emacs to select their
preferred emacs mode for OCaml.

Closing as WONTFIX.