Re: Reducing the number of '*lock|shot*' packages
Raymond Toy writes:
I vaguely remember someone saying lazy-lock is deprecated because
lazy-shot did everything lazy-lock did and better. At least that's
what motivated me to use lazy-shot way back when.
My major complaint is that lazy-shot doesn't fontify as well as it
used to and now frequently makes mistakes when comment markers (like
#| in lisp) don't fit entirely within the window. It seems this
happened right after the great syntax modification.
This is my point - the number of XEmacs maintainer-hours is a limited
resource, and the more almost-the-same-but-slightly-different packages
we have, the more thinly spread the maintenance becomes, so that instead
of one really good font-locker we have 4 divergent buggy ones.
Maybe I'm spoiled by access to fast hardware, and maybe I am not being
sensitive enough to the needs of users who do not have such machines,
but it seems like the way to "fix" lazy-shot is with "rm".