Re: National Language Support Functions

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 12/29/06, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:

> - But on the other hand I have noticed
> that most users dowloading from my site prefer the patched version.

That is not saying much, IMO. If you put package X on a site, and Y,
described as "X with all bells and whistles for Windows", is not hard
to see why people would download Y even before knowing whether X is
good enough for them.

> You need to get the external tools and set them up to to get the most
> out of Emacs. Including a basic subset of them in a distribution is
> therefore useful in my opinion. Or having that as a separate distribution.

Most users of Emacs are programmers; a pointer to the place to
download the tools would surely be enough. But that's not what I was
talking about. There's no need to patch Emacs for that.

                   /L/e/k/t/u