Re: [Bug: 21.5-b11] No SGML menu File Options or User Options

Steven> I would love to attempt a refactoring of the core. Emacs was first refactored long before "refactor" was a word, at least as early as 1978. See http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html (a now somewhat dated graphical timeline), and a more detailed text timeline focusing on GNU Emacs and XEmacs in the XEmacs Internals Manual. And several of the in-progress projects are refactoring. Ben just broke up all the blah-{x,gtk,msw}.c files into blah-{x,gtk,msw}.c and blah-common.c files, unifying about 2/3 of the code. Buffer accessors, ditto, preliminary to supporting (a) Unicode as internal encoding and (b) wide-character buffers for efficiency. Mike Sperber and students have done a bunch of refactoring on the garbage collection code, which should make it possible to start plug'n'play implementation of different collectors. Jerry James has polished up the DSO implementation, and ported some stuff that used to be linked internally to be loadable modules. Etc. etc. True, there has never (AFAIK) been a refactoring from first principles. But the history of Emacs (and XEmacs) has basically been one of more or less continuous refactoring and reimplementation of internal functionality. Surely this is an important factor in its longevity. Steven> But, for now I guess I just wait around for Ben to fix Steven> it. ;-) You realize that almost certainly what caused the bug is a refactoring? And undoubtedly fixing it will require adding special case code to what was a clean design? ;-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.