From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: kixtart-mode Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:21:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83o7s8stgm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6061-636c2e00-95-57685e00@208106730> <835yfjmits.fsf@gnu.org> <877cyxec00.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11778"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 13:22:22 2022 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 1p4hp8-0002ss-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:22:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4hoi-0005te-Kr; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4hoW-0005ry-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4hoV-0007rA-SF; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:21:43 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=ltBTkw3Xe/Vr+BSkYOV8SuoqbRtUWeq3IyZuRQvVS+o=; b=XOvZjZcB1Vn7GBJaRd+t wZFJ2BjL3asX/3IasETx1E7cJ0XfugoBVHW6dlQMkcogJkBfqEtmA3f2c6D6X4j1VOrG3YdaWfi40 bpGJJuHdnJ9TB6kq0YhR5cJ4N+qg8j1bxD1HyImNwzojteaAhmg5kfRAHLF/8pmjSqrpxKs5eaUoK yK/C9yqUXSv+vcw8Vj8g3M1+xVnkpfzoBRVpGGBB6X335MTjBww/hYcGlfUBgFEk7GGtC0hzVF1qT cE/4NfnJWwCFE8k2JS+9vuY01iIfdYrgkctHsakkbG/J6AA9gqCnhwFHbLlaEf1hDT55/qnLo5JTw wH3hyYg4k+gZHg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4hoV-0003xa-Cv; Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:21:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877cyxec00.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:50:23 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301223 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:50:23 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> BUT, it is a bad thing if people use SickStart to write scripts > >> that they could have written in a free scripting language. > > > > There are no scripting languages for MS-Windows that are Free > > Software, AFAIK. > > After a cursory look at kixtart, I would say with confidence that Tcl/Tk > with the twapi package provides a superset of its features. Does Tcl/Tk provide access to the low-level Windows APIs, like Registry and Win32 functions?