From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Support (or not) for Emacs 21, and XEmacs Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:59:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <15649C3E-517D-433D-977F-06008C20A4F4@gmail.com> <3658A4B7-E30A-4D7A-9781-C97A01931A13@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3tNn-0003e1-Qc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:35 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43651 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3tNk-0003b0-Fw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3tNh-0007px-CV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:32 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f225.google.com ([209.85.218.225]:50406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3tNh-0007pk-7U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:59:29 -0400 Received: by bwz25 with SMTP id 25so4900584bwz.8 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:59:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Michael Sperber Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Michael Sperber wrote: > > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> The compromise for me would be this: >> >> - You fix the things above. >> - I leave the rest of the necessary compatibility code in >> - I program any new features with whatever is available >> in Emacs 22/23 and rely on you to make it XEmacs compatible..... > > That would be wonderful. I'll see that the issues are addressed: > >> 1. posix character classes in regular expressions, thinks like >> [:alpha:] >> These are nice because they work well with arbitrary languages. >> Does XEmacs suppor these now? > > No, but I'll see to it that they are. Right now I am using a macro to replace them with the corresponding ASCII character sets - but this is not nice and even wrong in foreign languages. > >> 2. The overlay API - I think XEmacs actually has a compatibility lib >> for these, is that correct? > > Correct. > >> One of the things you could do it to figure out if I can also >> switch >> to the API calls overlays-in and overlays-at in that library. > > You should, anyway: I'll take care of any problems. I take it > something > about these didn't work for you in the past: If that is so, a sentence > or two on what those problems were would be much appreciated. I don't remember - I wrote these compatibility functions without knowledge of the library in XEmacs. So it is well possible that the library functions just work - I will just switch - and wait for any bug reports. > >> 3. outline.el. Last time looked, XEmacs still had the horrible old >> outline.el which is pretty much impossible to program. >> I do have a port, xemacs/noutline.el in the Org distribution - if >> you >> could get that into XEmacs, that would get rid of a major >> annoyance, >> including complicated installation instructions. > > I'm working on this right now - should be no big problem. A few minor > incompatibilities with our current outline.el need to be addressed, > but > I'm working on them. OK. This is a potential source of future problems - but we will see. > >> 4. Can you make XEmacs understand mouse-3 instead of button3 ? Or >> maybe it does understand these by now? > > No; I'll try to get this in. > > Won't all happen overnight, but I'm getting to work on it. I very > much > appreciate your willingness to help! Thank you for your willingness to take much off my task list. - Carsten