Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Kastrup writes:

 > In short, it is not likely we are talking about a no-brainer regarding
 > rebasing MULE on something else.  If we were, it would appear to me that
 > XEmacs would have had more to gain from such a step than Emacs, and
 > there is likely some reason that they chose not to do so.

The reason for using Mule code in XEmacs in the first place was that
by the time anybody who understood multilingual processing because
they suffered from from it, Sun had already awarded the contract to
Ben et al and it was a done deal.  Since then, we haven't fixed it
because I'm at best slow and mistake-prone as a programmer, and nobody
else really cares.  Believe me, I *want* to do it.