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Re: EmacsW32 invocation options


From: Hadron
Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 16:54:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux)

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/4/07, Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd say you have wasted more energy arguing about the "waste of energy"
>> of this little "nice to have" than you would have implementing it.
>
> That's beyond unfair.

No it isn't. I made absolutely zero inference on the great things Eli
has done in the past. In *this* instance it strikes me that the old
guard are being unfairly hostile to Lennart and his efforts. Possibly
it's just the way it comes across.

If it seemed I was in anyway degrading or disputing Eli's efforts for
Emacs then I sincerely apologise. That was not my intention.

>
> Eli has spent prodigious amounts of energy in developing Emacs in
> general, and Emacs on DOS and Windows in particular, not to mention
> his attention and dedication to improving the documentation. There are
> at least 1313 ChangeLog entries bearing his name, and the AUTHORS file
> says:
>
> Eli Zaretskii: wrote codepage.el rxvt.el tty-colors.el
> and changed msdos.c Makefile.in makefile.w32-in files.el info.el fileio.c
>  startup.el mainmake.v2 config.bat menu-bar.el pc-win.el rmail.el
>  simple.el msdos.h internal.el xfaces.c emacs.c frame.c dosfns.c
>  faces.el frame.el and 531 other files
>
> I'd say he's quite knowledgeable about spending energy in the
> betterment of Emacs...
>
>             Juanma
>

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