Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Further TikZ patches

[Mosè Giordano]

2016-04-13 20:20 GMT+02:00 Matthew Leach <address@hidden>:
> Hm, interesting.  I should probably have a working XEmacs installation
> if I'm working on AUCTeX....

I have XEmacs installed on my computer but I don't use it.  I just
compile AUCTeX from time to time to make sure there aren't huge errors
(like functions not defined there.  BTW, to be sure I'm not going to
introduce a function not defined in XEmacs I often grep the name of
that function in AUCTeX source: if it's already used odds are good
it's available, otherwise I fire up XEmacs and see if it's defined)
but of course in this way I can't catch runtime errors.

At some point we should discuss whether to continue supporting XEmacs:
I don't know AUCTeX users apart from Uwe running XEmacs and I know
he's also moving to GNU Emacs.  In addition, since we started using
debbugs, he's been the only one to report bugs while running XEmacs:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/search.cgi?phrase=xemacs&search=search&skip=0&attribute_field=package&attribute_operator=STREQ&attribute_value=auctex&order_field=date&order_operator=NUMA&max_results=100
 Bug tracker isn't a good sample of our community, but sometimes I
think we're still supporting XEmacs for just one person.  Sorry, Uwe
:-)

Bye,
Mosè