From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lightweight, C-only implementation of Emacs Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 23:55:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 23:56:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k2iRC-0009i0-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:56:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k2iRB-0003dS-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k2iQY-0002Ym-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:65206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k2iQV-0004xJ-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 073LtD4s014363 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Mon, 3 Aug 2020 21:55:14 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 073LtDaQ002605; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 21:55:13 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/03 17:55:17 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253422 Archived-At: > >> *shrug* The author told you not to use it. What don't you understand >> about the statement? > > FWIW, I use it very happily. It might be worthwhile trying to find out > why he doesn't recommend its use and what he recommends instead. Maybe > the issue is simply that he lost interest and we should be looking for > another maintainer. > The main (and serious) limitation of Zile is that it has no support for Unicode. In fact it is in practice limited to ASCII characters. There should apparently be a "displayable-characters" configuration variable to use 8-bit character sets, but it is nowhere documented how it should be set. Gregory