From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:07:36 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87k6qu4vso.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87acrp2yl3.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104847762 21835 80.91.229.6 (4 Jan 2005 14:09:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , schierlm@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 15:09:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClpMy-0002uf-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClpYB-0005VK-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClpXl-0005Ti-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClpXi-0005RZ-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClpXi-0005Qv-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.207] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClpLU-0002t1-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:07:36 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 49so606662wri for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:07:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=pVMHyXV6eIoJIyGMzFs1MhUmh4ztOowUqizW4BDl9LnaLdkiOwWE5v0lOMHExO97nEyCHr1LT2Dq2BaJBiL0BRVUEGBsr4lWcb1ZRrRx4Pl1UOWtr9PTOgWkOHVBMqpg8lvL1H1jJU85ZIm+cAMycOwd3HrzYP8kfX3K9V0TIkA= Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with SMTP id 32mr96405wrs; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:07:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.78 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:07:36 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Stefan In-Reply-To: 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31820 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31820 > > That's my point. People are just not going to find that acceptable, > > at least they didn't with year 2000 hardware with XEmacs. > > But you're comparing apples and oranges. With XEmacs you're talking about > lots and lots of searches at every startup, whereas with AUCTeX we're talking > about several searches done only when the feature is used. Yeah, anyway don't we already do this sort of thing for configuring e.g., grep at runtime? Searching for a few programs and invoking them to test options, _the first time you use a specific feature_, doesn't seems like a big deal at all. Does auxtex require something else? -Miles