From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32434: configure option without-xim is non-standard Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534387270 1225 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2018 02:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32434@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 04:41:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Dh-0000DB-FB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Fo-0005zh-2f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Fc-0005y1-0f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Fb-0002ek-9j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:47189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Fb-0002eb-6G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Fb-0002ks-1C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:43:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32434 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 32434-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32434.153438732910517 (code B ref 32434); Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32434) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Aug 2018 02:42:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52207 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Ej-0002jZ-Dh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51635) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Eh-0002jJ-Pm for 32434@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8Eb-0001Lx-P1 for 32434@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8EZ-0001Ju-P1 for 32434@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8EY-0007Dl-A4; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:28:00 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:149523 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I'd always assumed the configure option --without-xim caused Emacs to > be built without XIM support. In fact, all it does is toggle the runtime > default as to whether XIM is *used* or not. > Apparently this is intentional, see thread at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00061.html > I think it's wrong to have a build-time option for a feature that can be > controlled at run-time (by X resources). I agree. Can it be controlled by a Lisp variable? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)