Re: tlug: emacs 20.2

[Jon Babcock <jon@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> Linux will probably get it soon on gtk, but XEmacs is not
    Stephen> going to support that for a while, if at all (there are
    Stephen> both licensing---I know, I know, but the X/Open fiasco
    Stephen> has people gun-shy---and stability objections, plus the
    Stephen> fact that some of the gtk people were quite rude about
    Stephen> the idea of coordinating development so that features
    Stephen> that XEmacs needs could be integrated with the toolkit).

" ... but the X/Open fiasco has people gun-shy--- ..."

You're referring to the the fact that the "Open" group announced they
are trying to kill X by making 6.4 non free software, right?
Commercial Unix will be the biggest losers; they already tried to kill
themselves by standardizing on Motif and CDE. Apparently that wasn't
enough so the "Open" Group took charge of X and is trying to kill
it. It just means that XFree and free software will define the future
of X now.

BTW, quick scan of News for FSF Emacs 20.2.91 did not reveal any info
about Input Method support beyond Quail. I just got started to play
with it, however.

Jon

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Jon Babcock <jon@example.com>


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