Maintainer wanted

[tamzinblake]

It would be great if someone else could maintain js3-mode. I think most people use the well-maintained js2-mode, but a bunch of people prefer js3-mode so it would be nice if someone were keeping up with it. I wouldn't say I've abandoned the project, but I have a lot of higher-priority stuff going on, so I'm willing to pass it along to an interested party.

[plumlee]

I use this every single day, and would be willing to help out. My lisp is pretty poor, but I’m willing to learn. I can start doing taking on some issues and see how I do, then you can make a decision as to whether you’d be comfortable with me taking over in the future.

[tamzinblake]

coolio

[plumlee]

Sorry this has taken me so long to circle back to. Family stuff has been piling on, but I can start some actual issue addressing in October if you're still looking for someone to take over.

[marcinant]

Don't you think that merging js3 unique features to js2 would be the best option?

[tamzinblake]

I'm pretty sure the js2-mode folks don't like js3-mode's approach to indentation - it breaks indenting the whole buffer and can take a long time on large JS files. So I doubt that core feature will make it into js2-mode. If developing that to the part where it works better is possible, maybe that could make it in, but I suspect that would require a major rewrite to the JS parser, which would probably make it substantially different from js2-mode.

That said, it's open-source, so do whatever.

[dgutov]

I'm pretty sure the js2-mode folks don't like js3-mode's approach to indentation - it breaks indenting the whole buffer and can take a long time on large JS files.

You don't have to get your indentation mechanism into js2-mode to reuse most of its benefits. I'm going to switch to using the indentation code from js-mode anyway, after Emacs 24.4 is released.

What you can do, though, is make js3-mode inherit from js2-mode and set indent-line-function to yours. That way you'll benefit from any parser improvements automatically, and will also be able to use this major mode with skewer-mode and friends.

Although, like discussed before, I'd prefer if you started with choosing a more neutral name.

[tamzinblake]

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