Re: `make' written in elisp

[Miles Bader]

> > That's my point.  People are just not going to find that acceptable,
> > at least they didn't with year 2000 hardware with XEmacs.
> 
> But you're comparing apples and oranges.  With XEmacs you're talking about
> lots and lots of searches at every startup, whereas with AUCTeX we're talking
> about several searches done only when the feature is used.

Yeah, anyway don't we already do this sort of thing for configuring
e.g., grep at runtime?  Searching for a few programs and invoking them
to test options, _the first time you use a specific feature_, doesn't
seems like a big deal at all.

Does auxtex require something else?

-Miles