Re: National Language Support Functions

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> - But on the other hand I have noticed
>> that most users dowloading from my site prefer the patched version.
>
> That is not saying much, IMO. If you put package X on a site, and Y,
> described as "X with all bells and whistles for Windows", is not hard
> to see why people would download Y even before knowing whether X is
> good enough for them.

That is not really what I do with the patches. I try to describe in full 
enough details for everyone to decide for themselves:

    http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html#unpatched


> Most users of Emacs are programmers; a pointer to the place to
> download the tools would surely be enough. But that's not what I was
> talking about. There's no need to patch Emacs for that.

Actually I was looking for a good tool writing web pages too when I 
started using Emacs. I was so tired of all different tools with their 
different shortcomings, time to learn, time to install etc.

I had an idea: maybe Emacs could be made to a powerful enough tool for 
web pages so that non programmers can use it too? Installation, 
friendliness of the GUI etc. That is still what I am trying to do. On my 
way I stumble on a lot of things in Emacs. That is not very bad. That 
was what I wanted to test.

BTW, after the release I hope we can include nxml-mode. It is very 
powerful, well written -- and hard to understand code. I wonder if rng 
can be used further in Emacs. I do not know the limitations of such 
approaches, but with a language like XML it seems very good. I thought 
about using it for CSS but gave up. I did not understand the structure 
of the code or potential syntax problems well enough to fight it.