[zile-devel] Update: more bugs found and fixed; progress on EPOC port

[Reuben Thomas]

I've been working on the EPOC port today. In the process, I found and 
fixed bugs in alternative-bindings code (EPOC needs 
alternative-bindings, sigh...).

I also removed novice-mode and the minihelp screens, for three reasons:

1. The screens are tedious to maintain.

2. zile is not for novices. There are plenty of lightweight editors 
(e.g. nano) that cater to novices.

3. Emacs does not have these features. We're trying to be a strict 
subset of Emacs, as far as sensible.

With minihelp gone, the only function of novice-mode was to determine 
whether the scratch buffer has a message or not on startup. Since Emacs 
always puts this message in the scratch buffer, this seemed to be 
sensible behaviour in zile too.


The EPOC port is progressing nicely. Annoyingly, the screen update is 
not very fast on a 36MHz processor, but it might well turn out to be 
usable. There is room for optimisation if not. In any case, the port 
seems to work well enough that I'm now using it instead of eemacs. None 
of the code is yet checked in; EPOC doesn't support BSD signals, nor 
fchmod and fchown.

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