dl canna (Was: Re: ITP: emacs20-dl and some dl modules for emacs)

Karl> I wonder if you've heard of this? Perhaps a dl-wnn and Karl> dl-canna would be good additions to XEmacs? AFAIK XEmacs and the FSF's distribution of Emacs use different mechanisms for dl. The port would not necessarily be easy. Furthermore, unlike our modules, which are experimental but part of the main development tree, modules for Emacs 20 are only distributed as separate patches and are not supported by the FSF AFAIK. dl-wnn and dl-canna might be of interest for distribution maintainers, but AFAIK they have quite small C interfaces so there's no reason not to compile them into Mule XEmacs by default. The reason that these are used for (not "in") FSF Emacs is that the FSF refuses to support any input methods except Quail as far as I can tell. (XIM is an undocumented feature.) So this modularization is very useful to the maintainers of the external Emacs-{Wnn,Canna} interfaces. We support them, so we don't have that issue. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."