From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 12:19:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4638EE03.8000602@gmail.com> <85bqgzvm20.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b2bvjc9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178360383 14463 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 10:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "David Kastrup" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 12:19:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HkHMc-00008f-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 12:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkHTL-0004Ug-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 06:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkHT8-0004UL-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 06:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkHT7-0004Tx-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 06:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkHT7-0004Tu-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 06:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HkHMN-0000FH-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 06:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so1019606wxc for ; Sat, 05 May 2007 03:19:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O5YFTHblPS17LUGNYiZXYNadVJSTtJS2cpWvSngzafQ/ibg2JNSZ/ZhhckY1yyJVMpyH2qs8lULVOw+d3UibzuRZsWVJhLHTGi6tTRfD6odjGFswm5IZY2P/ZaKfa7jxL5T/yGXZUcHpGb27s2s2leKGf8RzJmxFBUXiYstOwo4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nvBhIodNQ6p5igs79ia/YsePZltwH/xabPYqK9Ygo/CBRDj/Mauc7j8YDF91ebGD/cNPcTbBy1rVQ8GRJgHWxjUwmysrqc+Y9EFngrc2mH2YgyzQSA7LYovjXgQyE8kkQG1oQn82Cm0I3l75BJc+LcW16Tm51bfoLgLPAqaMVXM= Original-Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr3994352agy.1178360366458; Sat, 05 May 2007 03:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Sat, 5 May 2007 03:19:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <853b2bvjc9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43726 Archived-At: On 5/5/07, David Kastrup wrote: > "I would not be using Windows if it wasn't the only platform where I > could seamlessly integrate Emacs into my desktop" is quite likely. Well, I think that's also unlikely, but I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. > So > instead of making it a Windows-only application server, I find it > legitimate to demand a solution that won't work Windows-only and might > very well _block_ a clean implementation of, say, CORBA because of > Windows-only design decisions. I find it legitimate, too. I wasn't complaining about Richard's decision. > If 90% of Emacs functionality worked only on Windows, it would be > pretty useless for promoting free software. Aha. We're agreeing here, then. There's no point in ad-hoc, system-specific "fixes" when a general one could be developed with similar effort. Juanma