Re: National Language Support Functions

[Juanma Barranquero]

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

> Please explain a little bit more.

You're saying to users that (with your patch) it will work "more like
[it does] usually in MS Windows programs", not explaining why Emacs
does things differently, nor how (or why) that could be good. Little
wonder they prefer it "like MS Windows programs".

> You mean that they read my text that way? Yes, maybe the main reason is
> lack of agreement that these patches are really needed. Then what do you
> expect me to do?

I expect nothing. I'm explaining why I think the language on your page
is reason enough for people to choose your patched version.

> Though I am getting tired of
> saying things over and over again.

That's part of the process of convincing people and getting patches approved.

> What about that patch that tells
> Emacs to save the changes when a user logs off? I included that in my
> patched version nearly half a year ago since I did not want to loose my
> work. Is it included in Emacs today?

Why was not included? Was it deemed unnecessary, or wrong, or it just
fell off the wayside?

> The low level keyboard hook that allows Emacs to use the left and right
> windows keys as Emacs meta key should in my opinion be a very
> uncontroversial issue.

That's quite a weird claim. On one hand you're championing Windows UI
guidelines compliance; on the other, you want Emacs to steal one of
the Windows keys, which is an uncommon thing for Windows programs to
do. Win+R or Win+E do execute Run and Windows Explorer even if typed
inside Notepad or Microsoft Word.

> but it is hard for me to understand why it should be
> scary to use a low level keyboard hook.

I looked at your low-level hook code once; it wasn't scary. It was
just complex for little gain.

                   /L/e/k/t/u