From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: aplus works only for Xemacs Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:38:54 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <878w4odsab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4cba3f02-b231-4d97-9f71-e1ae64d1a3b9@y32g2000prc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291853468 19505 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 00:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 00:11:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 01:11:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQU6B-0005Qn-8c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:11:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQU6A-0006uD-AX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:11:02 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="gHTWu39xmF6+6jakqE8bYg"; logging-data="19661"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+62A2fzthmrrM3u/uyk94W" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yp+g0Qd47Rr2WcpZx1N133S1q8M= sha1:AXivN5qolz253/gjQvU7HGomkIc= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180304 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76272 Archived-At: > I forgot to mention that if someone who knows the internals and subtle > distinctions between gnu and X emacs would give me a few directions I > could try to do some of the grunt work in unravelling exactly why X > works but gnu doesn't (for aplus mode). Glancing at aplus's Elisp code (not sure why there's lisp.0 and lisp.1 in the tarball), it seems to be fairly old. In many ways it works only by accident nowadays (even under XEmacs) and does a fair bit of nasty things (i.e. it may/will change the way other things work in your session). So some of the work will involve adapting the code to current features (e.g. make use of Unicode). If someone wants to port it to Emacs, he should try it out under XEmacs first, to see how it is supposed to behave, and then try it under Emacs and report errors and discrepancies in the behavior, asking for help to fix them (gnu.emacs.help would be a good place to ask for such help). Stefan