Re: Not a timetable

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> FP> This is a bit like if I was saying that I do not use colourisation of
> FP> articles in Gnus, and intend to refuse to install or use Gnus until
> FP> there is an option to produce `.elc' files with all colourisation code
> FP> removed.  Is that it?  Is there anything else to it?
> 
> Well, no.  If you wanted to, removing the color-setting code is easilly
> doable: changing the default color setting code to use copy-face a lot is
> the easiest way I can think of to do it.  Hacking custom to think you
> always have a monochrome display is another (and is, in fact, my personal
> favorite :).

Neither of these "remove" the code -- they just disable its execution.
So I don't understand the difference between these hacks and `export
EMACS_UNIBYTE=1' which disables MULE.

> MULE is different.  Even "disabled" it is still there, looming in the
> background, consuming resources that could be used for something useful
> (for whatever definition of "useful" you care for).

I don't think MULE consumes any resources in Unibyte mode.

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