Re: Re: Support (or not) for Emacs 21, and XEmacs

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

any progress with integrating noutline.el into XEmacs?

Thanks

- Carsten

On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Michael Sperber wrote:

>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
>> 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!
>
> -- 
> Cheers =8-} Mike
> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

- Carsten