From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85acnxb2qt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DNFJX-0005WA-04@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:20:15 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > The interface that has been proposed is defined so as to make
> > complete informatoin available about what is or isn't
> > supported. That makes it so complex to implement--to complex
> > to be considered for now, and undesirable even for later.
>
> I can't quite see why having complete information about what is
> or isn't supported would be undesirable for later.
>
> You misunderstood what I said. I did not say the feature was
> undesirable, I said the complexity to implement it was undesirable.
>
> It seems reasonable to solve this task once, within Emacs.
>
> I hope to avoid solving it ever, if possible.
Well, the way to do that would be to have _all_ window systems work
through Unicode encoded menus, which would then reduce the test to
(or window-system
(uh-is-this-legal-p
(encode-coding-string string locale-coding-system)))
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-17 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-03 10:31 Possible change to startup.el Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-07 6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 6:31 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-08 7:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 18:43 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-09 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 23:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-14 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-15 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 1:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 19:51 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-31 12:01 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-31 13:43 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-31 22:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-01 4:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-03 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 11:37 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 13:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 14:29 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 16:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 22:23 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-30 22:47 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 23:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 1:02 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 3:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 2:21 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-25 18:07 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-27 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27 23:15 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-28 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-29 20:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 4:08 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-30 9:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-24 10:49 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-24 19:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-25 6:43 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-21 18:44 David Kastrup
2005-03-21 20:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 21:10 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 21:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-21 22:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 0:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-22 1:38 ` David Hansen
2005-03-23 18:25 ` James Cloos
2005-03-27 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 8:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 8:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 12:44 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-22 20:31 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-22 11:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 12:33 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 20:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 22:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-23 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 13:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 18:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-25 12:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-23 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
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