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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs
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Uwe Brauer |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:18:29 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Hi Uwe,
> 2017-02-23 19:33 GMT+01:00 Ikumi Keita <address@hidden>:
> You see? We have *no* XEmacs user reporting bugs (apart from you that
> migrated to Emacs), only developers using Emacs that sometimes start
> XEmacs just to see if AUCTeX works. That's fine until we're committed
> to support XEmacs, but honestly I don't think that's a fruitful way to
> spend our time ;-) Forcing AUCTeX to be byte-compilable with XEmacs
> requires us to use very old syntax and functions (or writing
> compatibility functions for the purpose), which makes the code less
> maintainable and efficient.
I am fully aware that I am Don Quijote here, but hey I live in Spain :-D
> I'd like to use lexical binding in AUCTeX (I should put it in the
> very-long term wishlist). That's impossible if we want to support
> XEmacs. Actually, I fear that dynamic binding is very much wired into
> many AUCTeX's internals, so a major work is required anyway.
Right, Xemacs does have it, that is on my todo list too, but on the list
of things I have to understand. For me dynamic binding looks natural and
that is why I still have not gasp the advantage of lexical binding.
Maybe one day.....
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, (continued)
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Tassilo Horn, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Ikumi Keita, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs,
Uwe Brauer <=
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Tassilo Horn, 2017/02/23
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] A simple patch displaying compilation time, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/19
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] A simple patch displaying compilation time, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/19