From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Douglas Quagliana Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 24.5 wordstar emulation (ws-mode.el) Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 17:29:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87egmwktqg.fsf@violet.siamics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430781896 25485 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2015 23:24:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 23:24:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Douglas Quagliana Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 01:24:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YpPjJ-0001eD-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 01:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpPjI-00040R-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 19:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpOs9-0005yS-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 18:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpOs8-0005AM-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 18:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]:35258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpOs8-0005AH-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 18:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: by labbd9 with SMTP id bd9so114696544lab.2 for ; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vVMGCMqp7ebZv05IijkUek3OfTkxsujLM6u5Q75LB+g=; b=k1lHMt0jSbdFyYvaglBBjyjUWfZ32U3tksQDm3W7FTRlPCcQhju1IoJ625fqDi12bT bgRGkkiGw2II9O3bVyiBjtDZyFp+npj+Bgj+rzs1iI+oLq8tmlNBtUKPH3v6uQMruQma pRkotvY4UEY6ySMYGcxqS3qVDVdfhNRbXAw3ELoVOacpN5BlH77zspvuOpt2yWmtg6R8 tClGCBxhrNsGHKNC45vkqxDJdfhi2bPZf2h31lfRVIl10X3hbF0xam5uhhxNBjZtSQRT kKI468lzll0j/mNGRjzITbIudSmTttxmxAfHcYI1P9fFUAjgpOmYdzrVRcSPtXiEsItb Ur7g== X-Received: by 10.112.77.234 with SMTP id v10mr21041065lbw.119.1430778595628; Mon, 04 May 2015 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.209.79 with HTTP; Mon, 4 May 2015 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87egmwktqg.fsf@violet.siamics.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::229 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 May 2015 19:24:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186215 Archived-At: If the suggestion is just to move ws-mode.el to GNU ELPA for packaging purposes, but ws-mode.el will continue to function and continue to work in the future as it does now, then I'm okay with that. I just don't want ws-mode.el to be abandoned, as I'm afraid that then it would stop working after some future upgrade. Douglas On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>>> Douglas Quagliana writes: > > > Somebody wrote in the NEWS file > > >> *** tpu-edt.el, ws-mode.el These emulations of old editors are > >> believed to be no longer relevant - contact emacs-devel@gnu.org if > >> you disagree. > > > I disagree. I still use ws-mode.el to emulate WordStar in emacs. > > A suggested option is to move both to GNU ELPA. It=E2=80=99s sim= ple, > it=E2=80=99s in my todo list, but not done yet. > > [=E2=80=A6] > > -- > FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/ =E2=80=A6 3013 B6= A0 230E 334A