From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Carbon port and multi-tty
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:53:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86skwute3t.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uod7idygk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 07 May 2008 16:40:27 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:36 +0200
>>
>> As an example: I seem to remember that you gave the MSDOS port a
>> text-mode CUA-like menu behavior and look, whereas this does not hold
>> true for text-mode on other operating systems (where tmm-mode is
>> almost universally despised).
>
> You have your history backwards:
That may well be.
> I'm sorry I no longer have time to port the menus to the text-mode
> terminal, but we don't always control what happens in our lives. I'm
> even more sorry that I cannot finish the bidi iterator for Emacs
> display engine: I think it's much more important than text-mode menus.
I very much agree.
> Anyway, I hope this wasn't just about my personal contribution, but
> about being kinder and more cooperative, even if you don't always get
> the same measure in response.
It certainly was not supposed to be a complaint about your personal
contribution at all and I am sorry if it came across as such: we
certainly have had enough in the line of "you should be doing this and
that" recently. I just wanted to give sort of a hands-on example of my
stance. It may not have been the best idea to pick that.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 16:55 Carbon port and multi-tty Chong Yidong
2008-05-06 17:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-05-06 22:08 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 2:36 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 2:37 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 3:18 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 3:52 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-07 4:01 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 4:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 6:00 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-07 4:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-07 5:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 5:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-07 6:10 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 6:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 6:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 7:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-07 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-07 10:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-07 10:51 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-07 13:53 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-08 8:44 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-08 8:56 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-08 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-09 11:13 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-07 10:07 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 10:16 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 10:32 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-07 7:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-08 0:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-08 1:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-08 1:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-08 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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