Re: XEmacs new development

>>>>> "shashank" == shashank  <[email protected]> writes:

    shashank> Is there any project plan exists that can give
    shashank> approximation of time required to develop such a
    shashank> plugin. and also required skills set.

    shashank> And also steps to write such plugins. As am completely
    shashank> new to mule/elisp language. Am C++/Java developer.

No, no, and no.

Something on the order of JDE takes man-years, at least to get to that
level.  If all you need for (say) UML editing is keyword/syntax
highlighting and proper indentation, it can probably be implemented in
30 minutes, with gradual improvement over time.

Required skills also depends.  I have no idea what your requirements
are.  Basic Lisp development is pretty easy.  Mule should be
irrelevant, Mule is supposed to "just work" with any ASCII program.
The amount of knowledge needed to do basic stuff with Mule (for
example, if you are not using UTF-8 in an XML mode, you would want to
check that the character set is properly declared before allowing the
user to save) is pretty minimal.

Usual procedure to write a new package is to adapt an existing one
that is similar.

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