From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.code-browser Subject: Re: patch for optional inhibit of delete-other-windows(IDE feature) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <84D8FEFE8D23E94E9C2A6F0C58EE07E3429A02@mucmail3.sdm.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209411949 23608 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2008 19:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ecb-list@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, klaus.berndl@sdm.de To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 21:46:24 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqZIr-0007s8-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqZIB-0004xl-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqZI7-0004x2-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqZI4-0004wQ-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqZI4-0004wN-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqZI4-0005t3-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JqZHr-0006H6-AR; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:19 -0400 In-reply-to: (joakim@verona.se) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96098 gmane.emacs.code-browser:2121 Archived-At: > But: I'm not sure if doing this a c-level is the right way. Why? > IMHO ECB should be runable with Emacs as well with XEmacs. And > if all these window-enhancements would be done at c-level at > Emacs then the incompatibilities between Emacs and XEmacs would > become more and more... A good-looking IDE requires new features at the C level, so that is what we should do. I don't know how these will affect ECB. Perhaps they will not require changing its code much, or perhaps they will. But we will not hold back from improving Emacs just to keep ECB compatible with XEmacs.