Re: Trunk still not open

[Jambunathan K]

Stephen

Thanks for this note.  I can put these links to some use.

I MAY take up
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-08/msg00308.html.

A lot depends on how mature a conversation senior developers, old timers
and the staunch loyalist can hold.

PS: This is a list of elites who would ascend their throne to make their
arguments forceful.  Being an ass myself, I dislike elites :-).


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> To the extent that you want lower-level details from the horse's
> mouth, somebody will probably have to interview Richard (general
> Emacs), Gerd (redisplay), and Ken'ichi (MULE), among others (those are
> the areas where I know a particular person did a lot of design by
> themselves, but I don't have comprehensive knowledge of Emacs) but
> Richard's paper
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
>
> is a pretty good start on the "whys" and many of the higher-level
> "hows" of Emacs design.  Also
>
> http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html
>
> is in great part relevant, with many lower-level details that are
> applicable to Emacs as well.  It is quite incomplete and there are
> piles of junk that are basically old block comments mover there from
> the source, but I still find it useful when I read Emacs C code.