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[Dhruva Krishnamurthy]

Hi,
 I had sent this mail to Gerd and was told to send to emacs-devel
 list. Hoping an updated speedbar in the future (21.2).

Dhruva Krishnamurthy writes:
 > Hi Gerd,
 >  I have some questions and issues which I have noticed (not the first
 >  though). This is regarding the packages for Emacs.
 >  1. Speedbar: The version we use is 0.11 and it has some problems
 >     relating to flickering. If you hover the mouse cursor on the file
 >     in the speedbar frame, it flickers like mad. The latest (0.14beta)
 >     has this problem fixed and also, when you click to open a file
 >     (C/C++), through the function listing in speedbar, the whole line
 >     is highlighted and it is easy to find the cursor. This is a basic
 >     change I noticed. The flickering causes slow down due to some
 >     reason in Emacs.
 >  2. W3: This just does not work on Emacs-21 There are so many
 >     dependent packages. URL package is not suplied but is part of the
 >     failing W3.
 > 
 > 

with best regards,
dhruva

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