From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:17:59 +0900 Message-ID: <87mwg9nti0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <5335C336.3080108@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396091903 8297 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 11:18:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 12:18:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrHQ-0005eO-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:18:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrHQ-0007CS-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrHF-0007CA-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:18:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrH8-0000Yz-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:47743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrH0-0000XY-7A; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637DA970A3D; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:17:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 523A41A28DC; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:17:59 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <5335C336.3080108@dancol.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171135 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > On 03/28/2014 03:28 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Fortunately for me, I am *intimately* familiar with XEmacs internals, > > and therefore RMS won't let me write this code for Emacs. :-) > > What now? People who have contributed to XEmacs can't contribute to Emacs? Not a problem, when put that way. However, I'm familiar with a specific implementation of the ideas that I describe. That implementation is not FSF-assigned, and therefore anything I write is tainted with the fear of copyright infringement if I claim it's mine but it looks like Ben's or Martin's. It would be possible, but somebody would have to spend a lot of time studying XEmacs and confirming nothing I wrote was an echo of code I'd studied. Then they'd be tainted by that knowledge .... What I can do freely is discuss design in general terms, and that's what I've done. This is all in the guidelines for reimplementers of non-GNU software.