From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:36:54 +0200 Message-ID: <861wbh28h5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <87odepv21n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ir4wjcev.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200710261516.l9QFGQ7C001069@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193413062 319 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2007 15:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 26 17:37:42 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 1IlRFm-0004CI-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:37:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlRFd-0006yq-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlRFZ-0006xy-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlRFU-0006wJ-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlRFU-0006wG-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlRFT-0003GM-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA30339 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:37:12 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 18624 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2007 15:37:20 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (quinx.quinscape.de [127.0.0.1]) by quinx.quinscape.de (AvMailGate-2.1.3-2) id 18620-ey4jp1; Fr, 26 Okt 2007 17:37:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Oct 2007 15:37:20 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2FAF88F289; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:36:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri\, 26 Oct 2007 17\:32\:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.30; VDF: 7.0.0.141; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:81775 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 10/26/07, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > >> So yes, the fact that the DOS code is present has an impact on >> everyone that does work on emacs. As long as there are users for that >> code this is fine, but there's no evidence that there are such users. > > I have no opinion on this discussion, but with respect to the point > above, it is not inconceivable to think that ports for old > architectures could be still in use in less developed countries, where > upgrading to the new-and-shiny-processor-do-jour is often > impractical... That reason has been given many times to maintain the > support for Windows 95/98/Me, and does not seem too far-fetched to > extend that to MS-DOS. But how many of those people will be able to use a bleeding-edge Emacs? The memory requirements would appear prohibitive if you have a platform for which nothing but MSDOS seems reasonable. -- David Kastrup