Re: Changes in font locking

David Kastrup writes: Nonsense, as a quick look at a few XEmacs Beta threads will show. Quite obviously the bugs themselves and the reporters' demeanor have a huge amount to do with it, write access or not very little, and very few reporters receive cross words, and even fewer are ignored. Ralf dug up the information that I asked for, as well as very useful information about Emacs that you also chose not to get[1], and he got the desired result. I greatly appreciate his efforts, because it turned what I thought would be a hard bug into a pretty superficial one.[2] Your bluster, on the other hand, is a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing except your frustration. I felt sorry for you, and more so for the actual users, but as long as I was under the impression that getting into the guts of copy-syntax-table was required, to me it wasn't worth the time I estimated it would take. I have better things to do. Time constraint and bug triage is just an unfortunate reality in an open source project staffed by a declining number of volunteers. Footnotes: [1] In fact you incorrectly claimed the opposite, which was important -- it made it seem that the use of copy-syntax-table was a deliberate, XEmacs-specific change, meaning that the hairy internals probably would be relevant. [2] I suspect that `copy-syntax-table' still needs surgery, but that is pretty clearly not relevant to this particular issue. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta