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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Major mode for editing and running (Standard) ML. (Code incl.)
Summary: What's SML? re: C-J.
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Date: 16 Dec 88 15:02:47 GMT
References: <1355@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
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In-reply-to: lbn@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Lars Bo Nielsen)

In article <1355@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>, lbn@ksuvax1 (Lars Bo Nielsen) writes:
>Here is my Christmas Present for emacs and (Standard) ML users. A
>major mode for editing and running (Standard) ML.

Could someone kindly explain what ML is?  Is it mock-lisp, or
MAC-lisp, or muddle, or something un-lisp?

(Yeah, too lazy to read all the code and understand the language :-)

Also, a nit:

>;; C-RET (reindent-then-newline-and-indent).  This is probably the
>;; function you will be using the most (press CTRL while you press
>;; Return).
> ...
>    (define-key sml-mode-map "\C-j" 'reindent-then-newline-and-indent)

I expect that many many terminals do NOT generate ^J when you hold
Control and type Return.  This should also talk about typing either
Control-J or "Linefeed" if that is present as a separate key.
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