update of jed-extra

[G. Milde]

On  4.07.05, Paul Boekholt wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:12:27 +0200, "G. Milde" <g.milde@web.de> said:
> 
> > Again, it would not make sense to install all of Jedmodes.
> Conversely, not all modes that are suitable for inclusion in jed-extra are
> at Jedmodes.

True. Guido Gonzatos abcmode comes to my mind as well as the extended
latex.sl by Jörg.

* Does it make sense to include a "complete" set of modes but not
  activate/install them? (So people do not need to go to Jedmodes.sf.net
  or elsewhere.)
  
* Should we use debconf to let the administrator decide which modes to
  activate/install?

* What core set of modes should be installed (we had this survey
  already at the time of the first version).


> > Actually, I think we should drop either apsmode or a2ps. As I do not use
> > either of both, maybe Paul can say something about this.
> 
> I don't use them either, though I wrote one of them.  Actually a2ps and
> apsmode do different things: a2ps.sl provides a mode for editing a2ps
> stylesheets as well as some stylesheets, and apsmode provides a function
> to pretty print buffers from JED, using a2ps.  

I see, so keep them both.

> I don't know about apsmode - if it works well it should be
> useful, but I haven't tried it.  So actually there may be more overlap
> between apsmode and print.sl than between apsmode and a2ps.sl.
 
This is true, apsmode and print create a name conflict as both provide
the function print_buffer(). So they serve as an example why we should not
activate all modes in jedmodes.tgz.


Günter

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