Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh stephen(a)xemacs.org: What development cycle? “Cycle” involves some concept of “release,” right? Release involves a release engineer, and a schedule, things we don’t have. You know, I hate that. I understand the reasoning, but it seems to me that people push decisions out to Lisp _and then leave them unimplemented or unfinished there_ too much. The locale sniffing is in Lisp, and it sucks. The face menu is Lisp, and it’s kind of buggy, inconsistent, and slow (not helped by my recent change--I’ll get to fixing it soon, promise!). More generally, the menus are in Lisp, and they’re not that coherent or nice to use--they is no overarching theme of what merits a menu entry and what doesn’t. Deciding which mouse button to use when clicking on a link is in Lisp, and it’s wrong, and has been ever since Mosaic was released. I’m not enchanted with specifiers generally--do a (setq debug-x-faces 1 debug-x-objects 1) and watch how often they call that code for one part of why--so with regard to your example, IMO buffer-local variables are good enough for that problem, and there are enough parts of XEmacs that aren’t “good enough” that they come earlier in the queue. I can’t think of any other features that could use tag tests like the one I added for charsets, but maybe someone more enchanted by specifiers could. Well, I think implementing that would be workable and relatively painless, there are none of the design questions I had trouble with when I first proposed it--refactor the existing Mule encoding and the existing Unicode support to make it possible to treat it as an implementation of ISO 2022 on top of Unicode, instead of vice-versa, use some of that infrastructure for X11 server-side redisplay, don’t use any of it for XFT or Win32, use the UTF-8 escapes in generated escape-quoted .elc files instead of the ISO-2022 encoding for non-ASCII characters, but be equally prepared to read the ISO-2022 representations of characters. But I don’t like the idea of adding one more configure option for it at this point in time; it’s already a lot of work, and too easy to forget one of them, to test any changes on X11 with Mule, X11 without Mule, XFT with Mule, XFT without Mule, Win32 with Mule, Win32 without Mule, the TTY. I’d be more open to it if we removed non-Mule as an option, but I don’t see that happening soon. -- Santa Maradona, priez pour moi! _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta