Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs

[Uwe Brauer]

    > Hi Tassilo and all,



    > For the sake of fairness, I leave here a record of a benefit
    > obtained from trying to keep support for xemacs. The dicovery of
    > the series of bugs I reported about font-latex.el[1] were
    > triggered by the warnings of byte compilation in xemacs. Since GNU
    > emacs doesn't warn about those code, the bugs were left unnoticed
    > for a fairly long period if I didn't test with xemacs. In this
    > sense, it is not bad to have two different byte-compile optimizer
    > at our hands.

That is why I propose to stop trying to maintain xemacs compatibility
but _not  to remove the Xemacs compatibility code, but I understand if
that is too much of a burden.