Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: icelandic.el

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 10 2007, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if the file is small enough to count as a tiny patch.  If
>> it isn't we'd need a copyright assignment from you in case you don't
>> have one on file for AUCTeX.
>
> If Einar only replaced "danish" with "icelandic" in style/danish.el,
> it's a tiny change AFAIK.  But I'm not sure if all contributors to
> danish.el have an assignment on file.

Ah, you are right, I have not checked that yet.  So it would be
necessary to state the history of icelandic.el in case we have to
recreate danish.el at one point from scratch.

I see in ChangeLog.old

1997-03-13  Per Abrahamsen  <address@hidden>

        * style/danish.el: Copied from `style/dk.el'.
        * Makefile (STYLESRC): Added `style/danish.el'.
        Suggested by Lars Frellesen <address@hidden>.

No further information I can find.  dk.el has been checked into CVS by
"amanda" in 1993.  I'd guess that this was Per's account name.

And dk.el is, by itself, ridiculously content-free (just calls a
language hook), in spite of being unchanged since version 1.1 which
has "lots of changes" in its log entry.

I don't think that rewriting icelandic.el without looking at danish.el
is going to buy us anything.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum