Picons and smileys...

Picons and smileys...

[Edward J. Sabol]

All this Gnus development effort going into smileys and picons has me
depressed -- and envious of all you XEmacs users. I really wish RMS or some
Emacs hacker would splice in the XEmacs display code into Emacs soon! Yeah,
yeah, I know: "They're working on it." What's it been two years? More? Ugh.
I'd just switch to XEmacs if I weren't so set in my ways.

Later,
Ed

Re: Picons and smileys...

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

> All this Gnus development effort going into smileys and picons has me
> depressed -- and envious of all you XEmacs users. I really wish RMS or some
> Emacs hacker would splice in the XEmacs display code into Emacs soon!

Sure, when they receive the necessary legal papers from Lucid.  'cept
that Lucid no longer exists.


Regards,

Hallvard

Re: Picons and smileys...

[Per Abrahamsen]

>>>>> "HBF" == Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

HBF> Sure, when they receive the necessary legal papers from Lucid.  

RMS has all the papers he need.  What he doesn't have is a volunteer
to do the merge.  My guess based on 97% ignorance is that the merge
would take at least 6 month full time work for a skilled programmer
who already knows Emacs pretty well.

Re: Picons and smileys...

[Richard Pieri]

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>>>>> "EJS" == Edward J Sabol <sabol@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

EJS> All this Gnus development effort going into smileys and picons has
EJS> me depressed -- and envious of all you XEmacs users.

Well, guess what?  There are actually XEmacs users who do not use menus
and inlined graphics and all that stuff.  We use it because the display
engine is much faster than the FSF's code.

EJS> I really wish RMS or some Emacs hacker would splice in the XEmacs
EJS> display code into Emacs soon!  Yeah, yeah, I know: "They're working
EJS> on it."

Actually, they are not.  There is no way that the XEmacs X display
engine can be grafted into FSF's code, nor can the Win32 display code be
spliced into XEmacs.  Their APIs are about as different as can be.  At
one time that might have been possible, like around LEmacs 19.3 or so;
not any more.  Since then the two have continuously diverged to the
point where a merger is technically almost impossible.

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