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Re: Contributing to Emacs Development
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Contributing to Emacs Development |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:43:55 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:40:46 -0600
> From: address@hidden
>
> And using update alternatives, they can.
I'm not sure I understand what ``update alternatives'' are. Could you
elaborate?
> Please note that my
> proposal (which is quite inchoate here, and has not yet been
> proposed to the debian-emacsen mailing list) does not actually
> involve emacs at all. The dir file shall say:
> * Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> * Emacs-20: (emacs-20). The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> * Emacs-21: (emacs-21). The extensible self-documenting text editor.
>
> And emacs shall be pointed to by the current update
> alternatives candidate.
How does this ``pointing'' work in practice?
> Eli> We need to find a solution that will work in all Info readers,
> Eli> preferably without requiring any changes in those readers, for
> Eli> back-compatibility with old readers (although I think this goal is
> Eli> probably all but impossible to achieve).
>
> You are being far too perssimistic.
I sincerely hope you are right.
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, srivasta, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, srivasta, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, srivasta, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Kai Großjohann, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Miles Bader, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, srivasta, 2000/11/11
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/11/12
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Manoj Srivastava, 2000/11/12
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Eli Zaretskii, 2000/11/12
- Re: Contributing to Emacs Development, Jason Rumney, 2000/11/12