Re: XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service" is released.

Jeff> Can you describe custom themes (and current status) in more Jeff> detail? Sounds like it could be useful. Not very much detail, I'm afraid. Jan Vroonhof was working on it, there were discussions on some other channel (maybe there is a Customize mailing list or something), but they petered out a long time ago I gather. There is some partly working code (but completely undocumented) in the core Lisp (lisp/cus-edit.el would be the place to start looking), and a very minimal example theme in etc/custom. Jeff> One idea that I had is that you almost want an 'interview' Jeff> mode, similar to the turbotax interview. Maybe this idea Jeff> could be mixed in with the theme idea? It might be good for newbies, but I doubt you'd get a lot of enthusiasm from the old hands. So you'd probably be on your own in creating such a thing. A theme, on the other hand, could easily be derived from current settings by querying all the customized variables. Naively done this would contain a lot of redundant or even undesirable information, but that could easily be improved. This would make it easy for people to experiment with environments "just like" someone else's, while making it possible to restore one's own easily (and perhaps temporarily) without restarting XEmacs. So I would guess that this would be useful to everybody, and probably you'd get more contribution to that. All IMHO, of course. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.