Re: compiling option for nomule
On 29 Jan 2004, stephen(a)xemacs.org wrote:
>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer
<oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> Uh, there's no way to turn it off in 21.5.
Uwe> Ups, you mean no way to turn off file coding or mule? If it
Uwe> is the later, please no this cannot be true.
At present, file coding. You _can_ turn it on or off at runtime.
See C-h a eol-detection RET. But this is a _user_ option. By the
time your mode gets control, the detection and translation (if any)
has long since been done, so that API won't help you.
As for Mule, at worst --with-mule will become default; you'll still
be able to compile without it until at least the public release
after next (ie, well after 21.6 or 22.0, whatever we decide is
next).
But arguing against Mule is a losing battle. Asians must have it.
I agree.
And this brings me to another issue we discussed years ago: are there
any plans of BIDI support? GNU EMACS will now have it, I think the
testing phase is advanced.
All I am asking is to keep the --with-mule=no option. Years ago, when
RMS decided to put mule into GNU emacs, he did not offer such an
option and since this early releases screwed up a lot especially
mails, he scared people and some changed to Xemacs.
People who have these needs are going to want to use the packages
you maintain.
Ups I do not maintain x-symbol, this is Christoph's Wedler
excellent brainchild.