Re: future of emacs20

2003-05-08 Thread Thomas F. Burdick
Jim McCloskey writes: > > |> I'm not a great fan of orphaning complicated packages. Are there users > |> that need emacs20 because emacs21 is broken for some things? > > So it's not just an issue of what's broken, I think. It's also a > matter of whether the number of users in the situati

Re: future of emacs20

2003-05-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not a great fan of orphaning complicated packages. Are there users > > that need emacs20 because emacs21 is broken for some things? > > From what I've seen on the emacs groups, it's mostly people who a

Re: future of emacs20

2003-05-08 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I'm not a great fan of orphaning complicated packages. Are there users |> that need emacs20 because emacs21 is broken for some things? Here we have a graduate student lab with a lot of Debian machines. Because it's a graduate student lab, and therefore at the bottom of the totem-pole as far

Re: future of emacs20

2003-05-08 Thread Miles Bader
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not a great fan of orphaning complicated packages. Are there users > that need emacs20 because emacs21 is broken for some things? >From what I've seen on the emacs groups, it's mostly people who are very conservative about changing what works, a

Re: future of emacs20

2003-05-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering about the future of the emacs20 package(s). > I suppose the options are for me to orphan it, for > someone else to take it over, or for me to suck it up and get back to > work on it. > > Thoughts? I'm not a great fan of or

Re: How to paste Chinese text from Emacs to other X apps in KDE3

2003-05-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> I used to be able to paste Chinese texts from Emacs to other X apps >> until upgrading to KDE3 last year via setting >> "set-selection-coding-system" to "chinese-iso-8bit-with-esc". >> >> I get western characters (ASCII >127) rather than correct Chinese >> characters when copying Chinese text i