Jari Aalto+mail emacs writes: Counting the people programming ELisp vs programming Perl is comparing apples to oranges. The vast majority of emacs users simply use it, and don't write ELisp at all. In order to use Perl, you must be programming. As to whether this is a good idea or not, I believe that this should be something that is either a configure-time option, or a dll. Which brings up a real question. What applications currently use Perl as an extension language? I would like to know the advantages and disadvantages of it. To what advantage? Most work that we need to do in XEmacs is in the C or ELisp. -- Colin