I'm curious about their plans so I have sent a subscription request to the list anyway. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Mats Lidell writes: Yes, yes, and yes (but I doubt that most of the major packages will move to lexical binding for several years; they want to support non-lexbind Emacs versions as well as XEmacsen). I don't know, except that it's not something I know how to do. Adrian and Mike would both be able to do it, but I imagine it's a pretty big job, and time will be a factor. There may be others who can help. We'd have to use the strategy that GNU used of allowing individual libraries to be compiled with lexical binding or not. They used a magic cookie of "*lexbind*" or something like that in a comment at the top. I think that's a pretty horrible hack, but we might need to support it somehow anyway. I'm not sure what the alternatives might be (explicitly specifying the mode of compilation in the byte compile function call?) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta