Re: Intent package mule2 and custom-mule (Important for emacs (lisp) package maintainers)
At Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:15:56 +0900,
Takao KAWAMURA <kawamura@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I intent to package "mule2" which is Mule2.3 based on Emacs19.
> > Mule is MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs.
> > About Mule, please see <URL:http://www.m17n.org/mule/>.
>
> I do not think it is a good idea. Why must we have mule2
> based on emacs19 though emacs20 includes MULE? I think
> Mule2.3 is obsolete or to be obsolete.
Because emacs20 doesn't have full features mule2.3 had,
especially Japanese input supports.
> > Please support "mule2" as emacsen flavor with your elisp package
> > when mule2.deb released.
>
> As a maintainer of some emacs add-on packages, I am pleased
> to support a new flavor if it is a new editor, such as
> xemacs21. But, I do not want to do so for an old and
> obsolete editor.
What do you think about emacs19? emacs19 is old and obsolate editor, isn't it?
Anyway, without mule2, current situation is very incovenient
for many many Japanese users except SKK users such as you and me.
Could you propose another best solution before potato freeze?
Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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