sb> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: Don't know about locale. Would it make sense to add a little lisp to the sound packages to make (package-get-package-provider 'sounds-au) and (package-get-package-provider 'sounds-wav) work? sb> sounds-au, sounds-wav and locale provide no Lisp features. sb> How do you wish to have this handled? sb> Tooltalk has lisp code, but no features. I'm not sure exactly sb> what it does. Is 'tooltalk already a feature on systems that sb> have it? I think TT is a Sun thing only. AFAIK it's used by SunSoft's Visual WorkShop for C++ and the like for editing/debugging integration. Here is a mouthful from the ttsession man page: ttsession(1) User Commands ttsession(1) NAME ttsession - the ToolTalk message server SYNOPSIS ttsession [-hNpsStv] [-E|-X] [-a level] [-d display] [- c [command]] DESCRIPTION The ttsession utility is the ToolTalk message server. This background process must be running before any messages can be sent or received. Each message server defines a session. The message server has no user interface and typically runs in the background, started either by the user's .xinitrc file or automatically by any program that needs to send or receive a message. OPTIONS The following options are available: <lines deleted by Adrian> sb> `egg-its' will be fixed in the next update to provide: sb> provides (egg-cnpinyin egg-cnzhuyin egg-cwnn-leim sb> egg-jisx0201 egg-jsymbol egg-kwnn-leim egg-leim egg-sj3-client sb> egg-sj3-leim egg-sj3 egg-wnn egg) sb> `debug' will be fixed in the next update to provide: sb> provides (dbx gdb-highlight gdb gdbsrc gud history) Ah, good! sb> (pdb.el needs a (provide 'perldb) or (provide 'pdb) or both). perldb is in gud.el, NOT in pdb.el, which implements Python debugging. sb> Stephen[1], `edict' needs the following patch: sb> 1998-06-29 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; sb> * package-info.in: Update provides. sb> --- package-info.in~ Mon Jun 1 12:31:03 1998 +++ sb> package-info.in Mon Jun 29 14:14:39 1998 ＠＠ -8,12 +8,12 ＠＠ sb> distribution mule priority high category CATEGORY - dump t + sb> dump nil description "Lisp Interface to EDICT, Kanji sb> Dictionary" filename FILENAME md5sum MD5SUM size SIZE - sb> provides () + provides (dui-registry dui edict-edit sb> edict-english edict-japanese edict-morphology edict-test edict sb> ts-mode) requires (REQUIRES) type regular )) sb> Footnotes: [1] I've got one other patch to edict that needs sb> integration with the version in CVS. Should I update the CVS sb> tree immediately, or wait for you to do it? Best regards, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com