Re: temporary-file-directory

You probably meant this rhetorically, but I'll answer it anyway, since it is a FAQ. Jonathan Harris writes: Because they are different programs maintained by different people with different priorities and different work schedules. We would block their work and they would block ours if we try too hard to stay in synch. Cross-compatibility is overrated anyway. In my applications, I have to use interface functions for most new things introduced in XEmacs, not just because FSF Emacs doesn't have them, but because older versions of XEmacs don't have them either. So FSF Emacs is just another clause in a conditional that has to exist anyway.