From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copyrights to be fixed Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:53:45 +0100 Message-ID: <45CF2DF9.1000806@swipnet.se> References: <200702090136.25838.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <86irebhkgg.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87r6szr7c7.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <85d54gkd4j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171205741 20309 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 14:55:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 15:55:33 2007 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 1HGG72-0004yH-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:55:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGG72-0005lX-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGG6q-0005jT-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGG6o-0005ic-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGG6o-0005iW-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.183]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HGG6l-0000V2-08; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C5E5737F91; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:55:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D24537E46; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:55:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E60D37E44; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:54:13 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <85d54gkd4j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:66264 Archived-At: David Kastrup skrev: > joakim@verona.se writes: > >> Richard Stallman writes: >> >>> Are there major gaps in the features? >>> >>> No, not that I have seen. >>> >>> A small number of people can't tell the answer to this question by >>> running the program. >>> >>> We need the people who implemented the multi-tty code to tell us >>> whether there are cases they have not handled yet that need to be >>> handled to avoid loss of functionality. >> This readme contains a list of known issues: >> >> http://lorentey.hu/downloads/emacs/multi-tty/README.multi-tty >> >> For convenience I paste the Known Problems list here: >> >> Known problems: >> >> * GTK support. If you compile your Emacs with the GTK >> toolkit, some functionality of multi-tty will be lost. In >> particular, you will not be able to work on multiple X >> displays at once. Current releases of GTK have limitations >> and bugs that prevent full-blown multi-display support in >> Emacs. (GTK crashes when Emacs tries to disconnect from an >> X server.) Use the Lucid toolkit if you want to see a >> complete feature set. > > Ok, perhaps people will call me a lunatic for that, but I think this > would be a rather compelling reason to merge multi-tty support rather > sooner than later after releasing Emacs 22: there are rather few > applications for which multi-tty support and disconnecting from an X > server would be relevant. GTK and/or Gnome are supposed to be GNU > desktop components, and we want to get problems with them ironed out. > Merging multi-tty early in the Emacs 23 process gives appropriate GTK > bug fixes a chance to make it out into the real world before Emacs 23 > follows. In contrast, I don't think that we have similar > "sympathetic" software releases to take into consideration in > connection with unicode2. The Gtk guys are aware of the problem, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715. The issue is still not fixed as far as I can tell. Jan D. >