Re: lisp/term/vt*.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:39:23 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> 
>     Is there any reason why so many of the vt*.el files are exact copy of 
>     one another (modulo comments)?
> 
> Probably because the other alternative, symbolic links or hard links,
> were less portable.

I was thinking about this alternative:

  (load "term/vt200" nil t)

This should be portable enough ;-)

> Please leave them alone--this won't benefit users, and you could just
> as easily do something else that will benefit users.
> 
> For instance, there is a file of messages containing proposed changes
> that Gerd set aside for after the 21.1 release.  You could go through them
> looking for some changes to install.  This is very important.

I bumped into this while doing exactly that: I went through my own
todo list with changes I proposed and which got delayed until
after 21.1.

Doing this single change alone is indeed waste of time to a large
extent, but I'm making more significant changes to some of these files
(to support more colors when they are available), and thought that a
bit of cleanup while I'm at that won't hurt.