Re: radio silence on emacs patch?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 16 Jul 2001, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> To try and help the process, and by virtue of Kitame's emacs-21.0.104
> snapshot, I've updated, completed and polished the patch a bit:
> 
>     http://appel.lilypond.org/software/emacs-21.0.104.jcn1.diff

This is a non-trivial change in several key areas of Emacs, so I'm afraid 
it's too late to get it into the upcoming Emacs 21.1, which is under 
feature freeze for quite some time now (meaning that only bug-fixes are 
allowed into the sources).

I suggest to target Emacs 21.2, which is probably to follow quite soon 
after 21.1.

> Could you please help me or advise me on how to get this patch into
> Emacs?

I suggest to begin by posting the diffs to address@hidden, and 
asking Gerd Moellmann, the head maintainer, to include it in the earliest 
possible release.

> Sorry to mail you directly about this, but we've had contact before
> about texinfo, so I may not be in your killfile

I don't have any killfiles.  I oppose to such draconian measures on 
ideological grounds.

> and bug-gnu-emacs is clearly not working.

??? I get quite a few messages from bug-gnu-emacs all the time, and 
reply to many of them, as do other maintainers, including Richard 
Stallman.  So the group is obviously very much alive.