Re: fix for redisplay!

Matthew> Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Matthew> What about its basic underpinnings, namely Lisp? I am Matthew> probably treading on a very religious subject here (feel Matthew> free to point me to the previous war records) but I Matthew> wonder what state xemacs or even emacs would be in if its Matthew> underpinning was Perl. Imagine the results of a user Matthew> community that large banging on the source and adding Matthew> modules! I am not going to address the language issues here; as you say it's a religious issue. I ignore it, so I can't provide pointers :-) but they're there. We don't have to imagine it. We can see it, any time. It's called CPAN. Some of us don't think CPAN is a model for a robust integrated application. There are many well-written Perl individual applications, of course; but there are many badly-written ones, poorly documented ones, etc, etc. The same is true of Lisp, of course. My point is that sheer size of user base is not necessarily good, past a certain point, anyway, which Perl long ago passed. Also, I wonder how many of those users are "banging on the [C level Perl] source." I suspect the fraction is much higher, and maybe absolute numbers are higher too, in the [X]Emacs community. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091