Re: XEmacs

[Fabien Ninoles <ninf01@GEL.USherb.CA>]

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On 25 Feb 1997, James LewisMoss wrote:

> I'm planning on allowing both v19 and v20 XEmacs to be installed.
> XEmacs will be compiled with mule support, and while some people will
> want it I assume others will not want it (it slows down XEmacs a
> noticeable amount, so I figured the choice would be better).  XEmacs
> 20.0 without mule support is actually faster than 19.14, but figuring
> out how to deal with that is a little beyond me at the moment (and
> 19.15 should be faster than 20.0 without mule, so it'll be better when
> that is released).

Try to make it mostly similar to the current emacs package, mean same 
directory structure (with different names) and same packaging. It will be 
less confuse to maybe merge thing after that.

> The only hitch I still haven't figured out is dealing with package
> installed .el files in /usr/lib/emacs/site-list.  I don't feel it is
> right to just add that directory to the load path because there are
> enough difference between GNU Emacs and XEmacs that it might cause
> problems (esp v20 and GNU Emacs).  My current though is to deal with
> one .el file (debian-changelog-mode.el since I am using that), and let
> the rest be dealt with locally if the local person wants to.  (though
> this is a bad solution I must admit).  Does anyone have any
> suggestions?

You should don't mix each directories.. Try to avoid most conflict with 
emacs and use divertion for b2m, ctags, etags, and other that I don't 
remember. May be can we start a thread about trying to merge emacs and 
xemacs elisp files? Most of them work on either version. 

If you can put all .el in a separate optional package, please do it to.
Xemacs is enough big as it is.

> Does anyone have an general suggestions/comments/thoughts/concerns/etc?
> 
> Thanks
> Jim
> 

All IMHO, be sure. ;)


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