From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:42:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <878x6a6ktw.fsf@jurta.org> <871wc15m2b.fsf@jurta.org> <87lk9ylkbb.fsf@jurta.org> <87hckk9uoa.fsf@jurta.org> <87abqcrq9p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <471BE5D3.3050007@gmail.com> <87y7dwq7x9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odepv21n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ir4wjcev.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193348598 10315 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2007 21:43:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:43:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 23:43:18 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 1IlAU0-0006Cq-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlATr-0001hT-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlATo-0001hC-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlATn-0001gw-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlATn-0001gt-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlATk-0007SW-BJ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-118-51.inter.net.il [84.229.118.51]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DYO97080 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:42:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:21:27 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:81717 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Miles Bader > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:21:27 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Because the 8.3 name restriction has a negative effect for _all_ > >> developers. > > > > What negative effects? can you show them in the archives? AFAIR, this > > is about the first such issue in years. > > It's a periodic event. Yes, with a period that lately looks like 5 years, maybe more. > Does _anybody_ use msdos Emacs? I don't know, maybe not. > Even the most conservative > users have moved on to windows or some other system by now. The MSDOS port runs on Windows just fine. > Are we _ever_ going to drop support for this silly obsolete relic? I still don't understand why ``we'' (or should I say ``you''?) care. > Does anybody else still support msdos? Quite a few of GNU utilities do, see ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ (do a "ls -ltr" to see when the latest ports were uploaded). > In the end it's a cost-benefit analysis. Sure the cost of supporting > msdos is fairly small -- but the benefits seem far smaller. When the cost is strictly zero, the benefits shouldn't matter, IMO.