Agreed. True, but I'm concerned about stepping on toes in "their" development branch. If the people "in charge of" the unicode branch say yes, they want all these changes, okay, I can do it. But they
David> Um, you aren't saying this is a bad thing, are you Stephen? No. Merely that Debian users are highly unlikely to pose the kinds of problems that I'm thinking about when I write "nightmare". Th
The problem is that most of it is already available in docstrings, so that creation of reasonably complete functional documentation _could_ (at least in theory) be automated. Yeah, I thought of that
Adding index entries is a significant task of writing a good manual. Without an index, a manual cannot be used as a reference. Indexation is still largely a human task that cannot be easily automated
Right. diff -w In case of emergency, you can write a few-line script to use diff -w and patch to get the effect of a whitespace insensitive merge. But, I agree that automatic, en masse whitespace cha
Ah.. I finally could see malayalam. Thanks to all of you who helped me get this working. I did the following in ~/.emacs (if (eq 'x window-system) (let ((fontset (query-fontset (frame-parameter nil '
I think you can simply do this: (if (featurep 'fontset) (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0D00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0D7f)) (cons "misc-malayalam" "iso10646-1"))) There are
Because it is faster to do it than to check whether you need to do it? I'd be very surprised if anyone can provide measured numbers demonstrating that splitting customization information into multipl