Re: Faster lisp engine

Ilya Zakharevich <ilya(a)math.ohio-state.edu&gt; writes: [again, sorry for not checking out new versions first]. However this does point to the fact that the current XEmacs version is hopelessy out of date. Karl, are you still maintaining the XEmacs package? In the interest of all involved it might be nice if Ilya could fold in the minor improvements for XEmacs in his version so that there is no need for a seperate version. As far as I can see the XEmacs version contained the following improvements (this is already difficult to judge, which is why it is good to have just one version). 1. Customization (Ilya's 4.5 has that) 2. Lazy help was done using eldoc's techniques. 3. Use defalias for setting 'perl-mode and give it an autoload cookie. 4. Obeys delete-key-deletes-forward 5. Made Auto help toggle use true XEmacs menu toggle bottons. Ad 1. No need to anything (Maybe check of XEmacs customisations introduced incompatabilities). Ad 2. I do not know if it is a win. XEmacs 21.x has timer.el in its fsf-compat package. IMHO maintainability wins over other concerns. However Karl probably introduced his stuff because use of timer.el could/can? cause problems with other package. AFAIK all these have been fixed. I am not sure what the offical word is on this. Ad 3 and 4. These are good things. The changes are minimal. Ad 5. I am not sure this needed that badly (although it looks nice) and I am not sure this considered good taste for easymenu. Ilya would you accept a short patch for 3, 4 and possibly 5? Jan P.S. mode-compile needs to be packaged up for XEmacs. Unfortunately, I cannot contact the authors website at the moment.