From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: comint-carriage-motion causes severe problems. Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:19:05 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208072219.RAA02946@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200207020035.TAA19789@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200207021534.g62FYao17897@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200207021618.LAA20219@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200207032057.g63KvX604721@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207032111.g63LBAv25925@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200207041824.g64IO8i06426@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208070116.UAA01281@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200208072058.g77KwUo03670@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028758767 14557 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2002 22:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cZ9K-0003mg-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:19:26 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17cZV7-0002jm-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cZ9z-0003Ej-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cZ97-0003Cc-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA18702; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:19:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA02946; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:19:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200208072058.g77KwUo03670@wijiji.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:58:30 -0600 (MDT)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6347 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6347 Richard Stallman wrote: I would like someone to do it, and that could be you. However, if they are nontrivial we would need to get new legal papers from you. This is because the papers you signed (at least according to our file) in Jan 2001 only covered your past changes. If someone else who has assigned future changes writes this, we won't need new papers from him. I believe the papers I signed back then concerned planned changes to mailabbrev.el. Current submissions or planned submissions include: 1. Submitted changes to ielm.el concerning the variables *, ** and ***. I submitted those a little over two weeks ago. If you did not like the concrete changes incorporated in the diff I sent, then some other changes need to be made, since the two bugs I reported do need to be taken care of one way or the other. 2. Maybe the comint-carriage-motion stuff, but it is not clear that this will take more than twenty lines, which if I remember well is about the limit. 3. Combine mailalias and mailabbrev into a single package, where all mail alias definitions would be stored in .mailrc. 4. A new file, tentatively called aliasfiles.el (name subject to change) which allows to write interactively defined mail aliases automatically into .mailrc without need for the user to visit that file or even worry about it. 5. A new file called something like rc-mode.el (name subject to change) implementing a major mode to edit .mailrc directly. (To get useful results from font-lock, syntax-motion, filling and the like.) Timetable: 1. Minus 18 days. 2. A couple of days if it is decided that I am going to do it. 3, 4 and 5: Way more involved than 1. and 2. and took me way too long (I had to interrupt my work on this to the point that I had to refresh my Elisp knowledge when I finally found time to restart working on it, which is how I ran into ielm bugs.) However, I am now hopeful to finish all of this off within about one month. To summarize, I probably will need to sign new papers. I believe I remember that Gerd told me back in January 2001 that the papers I signed would cover future work as well, but I deduce from your reply that is not accurate. Sincerely, Luc.