Re: tab breakage yet again (XEmacs 21.2.29 is released.)
At 04:27 PM 2/16/00 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
KK> Andy, I don't mean to offend you personally, but one does
have to
KK> wonder what experimentation with a fix happens before it lands in CVS.
KK> Is it any surprise that such wonderment exists, when tabs literally
KK> don't work at all?
The problem is that I have to do things under both mswindows and about 3
variants of widgets under X. It always works for me under windows (hence
generally no complaints on xemacs-nt) but for the X stuff I have to rely on
other people to report problems.
Andy, I'd like to see these things for the gutter feature:
- documentation
Stephen Turbill has done some great documentation. The API needs to be
changed a little first before finalizing it.
- turn off by default for non-beta releases. Or, we could hold a
vote
in xemacs-beta or even comp.emacs.xemacs as to whether this feature
is one they are using. Unfortunately, getting an unbiased result of
such a vote is tough.
Please don't judge it until I at least think it is stable. I don't think it
is there yet, but it is close, despite the breakage people are seeing.
Unfortunately the working or not of the tabs is usually a symptom of the
underlying core widget code it is basically the core I am trying to get
right, not the tabs themselves (apart from the frequent breakage from the X
widget).
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd