Let's inventory our modes [was: possibly better Postscript mode]

Hannu> I just thought to let you know just in case someone caring Hannu> about XEmacs and Postscript would like to examine whether Hannu> postscript.el in XEmacs should be replaced with ps-mode.el. Thanks for telling us about it! Hmm.... It strikes me that we don't need to "replace" postscript.el; there's no reason why we can't offer multiple implementations of a given mode. After all, we offer many messaging systems, a couple of variants of TeX mode, at least two variants on adaptive fill, etc. It does suggest to me that "somebody" ought to go through our packages (and core Lisp! cf adaptive fill) and look for duplicates of this sort, bitrot, etc, ..., and document them. Feel free to add your personal evaluation of which are better (we already do that, see the description of RMail in PACKAGES. :-) I am going to add this to my personal priority queue, but if somebody wants to get started on it, be my guest! Please note that we do have PACKAGES and man/xemacs/packages.texi which have some descriptive material on packaged Lisp; they might be a good place to start adding. Get in touch with Steve Youngs, of course. And if you have suggestions about how I should do it if I ever get around to it (it is a priority queue, after all), let me know. I plan to publish my own todo list[1] like Ben's Architecting XEmacs etc. (Hey, maybe we should just have an XEmacs version of sourceXchange!) Footnotes: [1] But not as is, right now it's a VM folder.... -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."