Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Hi Keita,
   > Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> writes:


   > `replace-regexp-in-string' is used, and I see an unnecessary `*' there.


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   > Personally, I have a preference to fix these couple of cases and other
   > known compat-issues with some `if' constructs, release a new AUCTeX and
   > mark it as the last one which supports XEmacs and focus on supporting
   > Emacs.  This might sound harsh, but the future of XEmacs seems to be
   > uncertain.  If in some years XEmacs is alive and kicking again, we could
   > see how we can support it again and make incompatible functions work
   > again.

I find this generous enough (although I would prefer just to leave out
new nifty function and guarantee that auctex can by byte compiled with
xemacs which would result in a simplified (poor man's) version. But if
it is too much hazzle I understand perfectly especially if I have no the
time nor the knowledge to take that task.

BTW xemacs's service had a breakdown and are not full backup. Main
developers either switched to GNU or do not care much about auctex.
Progress on 21.5 is slow (Aidan's periodical commits not counted). So
sigh, yes


Uwe