Re: Re: [Ilisp-help] patcher for completer: please incorporate

> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:31:22 -0700
> From: Ben Wing <[email protected]>
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> Marco Antoniotti wrote:
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> >>Marco Antoniotti wrote:
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> >>>>attached are patches for completer.el that work on XEmacs under MS 
> >>>>Windows, as well as including another fix or two.  i've been using this 
> >>>>for a couple of years and it's been standard in the XEmacs-released 
> >>>>version of ilisp.  could you incorporate these?  thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>Patches of this kind are always welcome.  However, please understand
> >>>that the goal of ILISP is to be reasonably portable.  This includes
> >>>(for the time being) Emacs 20.7 on Linux.  Your patches will be
> >>>incorporated iff they do not break anything on other platforms or if
> >>>workarounds are provides in those cases.
> >>>
> >>as i said, this has been released as part of the xemacs packages for 
> >>almost two years.  no one has complained.  if there was any problem, i'd 
> >>imagine someone would have said something by now.
> >>
> >
> >Don't get me wrong, but the fact that any patch has made it into
> >XEmacs, unfortunately, has not always meant in the past that it would
> >not break anything on Emacs.  Hence my word of caution.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> well, why don't you give it a spin?  as far as i know i added nothing 
> that might remotely break GNU Emacs; and i'm absolutely sure i could fix 
> any bugs that might come up.

That is exactly what I meant.  It was just a "word of caution".
Definitively not a stop sign.

> [do you really consider XEmacs (and MS 
> Windows) so unimportant?  it certainly sounds that way from your 
> message.  i'd expect something more encouraging for new patch 
> submitters, or you'll end up scaring them away.]

I do not consider XEmacs and MS Windows unimportant.  But I value
portability as well.

I apologize if I sounded discouraging.  It was not my intent.

Cheers

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