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: Removing MULTI_KBOARD Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:29:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200807310343.m6V3h1Zo006813@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200807311921.m6VJLxu1016770@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808011209.m71C9Tj3018356@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808020655.m726tvsI017108@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808020927.m729Rnov027876@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <489432B0.2000305@gnu.org> <87r697qzn3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217698183 15221 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2008 17:29:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 19:30:33 2008 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 1KPKw4-0002ij-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:30:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPKvA-0003CY-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPKv5-0003BU-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPKv5-0003B6-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55277 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPKv4-0003Ao-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:24875) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPKuw-0001zS-7Q; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K4Z00CIKHX7R5B0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:29:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r697qzn3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:101961 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:07:12 -0400 > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , > Dan Nicolaescu , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Jason Rumney writes: > > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > >> How it is not a problem, if the MSDOS port does not support > >> MULTI_KBOARD? I must have missed the explanation, please repeat it. > > > > If anyone is going to get the MSDOS port working again, then the effort > > in getting it working with MULTI_KBOARD is going to be similar to or > > less than the work required to get the rest of post-multi-tty Emacs > > working without MULTI_KBOARD. The reason W32 and Mac now use > > MULTI_KBOARD is that the multi-tty changes basically forced it. The > > changes were minor compared with what else needs doing to revive the > > MSDOS port after the unicode and multi-tty merges. > > That's my impression as well. I guess we will see if these impressions are true.