address@hidden writes:
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
Are there major gaps in the features?
No, not that I have seen.
A small number of people can't tell the answer to this question by
running the program.
We need the people who implemented the multi-tty code to tell us
whether there are cases they have not handled yet that need to be
handled to avoid loss of functionality.
This readme contains a list of known issues:
http://lorentey.hu/downloads/emacs/multi-tty/README.multi-tty
For convenience I paste the Known Problems list here:
Known problems:
* GTK support. If you compile your Emacs with the GTK
toolkit, some functionality of multi-tty will be lost. In
particular, you will not be able to work on multiple X
displays at once. Current releases of GTK have limitations
and bugs that prevent full-blown multi-display support in
Emacs. (GTK crashes when Emacs tries to disconnect from an
X server.) Use the Lucid toolkit if you want to see a
complete feature set.
Ok, perhaps people will call me a lunatic for that, but I think this
would be a rather compelling reason to merge multi-tty support rather
sooner than later after releasing Emacs 22: there are rather few
applications for which multi-tty support and disconnecting from an X
server would be relevant. GTK and/or Gnome are supposed to be GNU
desktop components, and we want to get problems with them ironed out.
Merging multi-tty early in the Emacs 23 process gives appropriate GTK
bug fixes a chance to make it out into the real world before Emacs 23
follows. In contrast, I don't think that we have similar
"sympathetic" software releases to take into consideration in
connection with unicode2.