Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>  > [XEmacs's] buffer reencoding is a rather mixed blessing,
>
> What do you mean by "buffer reencoding"?

This earns you a major "Huh?!?" but indeed, looking up the Email you
replied to, it is

    The main "not elsewhere" category I see are XEmacs' extensive input
    modes (grid which is sort of a buffer-based menu, keyboard input
    methods quite better sorted and convenient than what Quail offers
    and with better feedback).  Its buffer reencoding is a rather mixed
    blessing, but it works with more than just TeX modes.

If you replace the brain fart/typo "XEmacs'" with "X-Symbol's", the
paragraph makes wagonloads more sense as the topic of discussion never
was XEmacs.  So I've been neither singing XEmacs' praises here nor
complaining about it.  This is about X-Symbol.

> We decode external streams to Mule encoding on input, and then encode
> them as specified on output.  "Reencoding" (duplicate encoding or
> transcoding) of buffer text occurs only if explicitly requested by a
> Lisp program or as a user command.

X-Symbol is such a "Lisp program".  And its core operation works via
buffer reencoding.  Whether running on Emacs or XEmacs.

-- 
David Kastrup