Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 276641
suggestion for ocaml emacs code
Last modified: 2014-08-11 01:46:43 EDT
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.
I will look at it, whenever a new build for ocaml is due.
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.
Should we then simply remove the ocaml-emacs package?
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.
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People can easily configure their .emacs to select their preferred emacs mode for OCaml. Closing as WONTFIX.