From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: Acronym lookups
Date: 09 Jan 1997 15:35:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u3oq777h.fsf@altair.xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 09 Jan 1997 21:49:14 +0100
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
William> _ALL_ of this functionality should be available to other
William> applications easily, without requiring the user to load up
William> all of GNUS/VM/W3 to be able to base64 a !%#*ing file. This
William> is one of the reasons I've been slowly rewriting chunks of W3
William> to be more modular. VM, GNUS, and W3 can all benefit from a
William> standard set of libraries that do:
William> - Mailcap Parsing
William> - base64 (en|de)coder
William> - Quoted printable (en|de)code
William> - rot13 display code
William> - URL loading
William> - RFC822 header parsing
Lars> Hear, hear.
You have my cooperation.
Lars> One reason I'm not totally grossed out (just slightly grossed
Lars> out) by the things happening with Netscape 4.0 (go read
Lars> news.software.readers) is that I rely on (at some point in the
Lars> (hopefully) not-too-far-off-future) tm (or something) to do the
Lars> Mimy things and w3 to do all html'y things. Reinventing wheels
Lars> is a bore.
Integrated tm and Gnus in the latest XEmacs betas seems to be working
quite well. I've discussed tm with RMS, and so long as the copyright
assignment papers are in the kind of order the header comments imply,
he's favorable to including it with Emacs.
Lars> So... When's w3 going into the Emacs distribution, Bill? :-)
;;; w3.el --- Main functions for emacs-w3 on all platforms/versions
;; Author: wmperry
;; Created: 1996/12/30 20:37:55
...
;;; Copyright (c) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
:-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-09 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-08 13:48 Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 11:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-01-09 11:29 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-01-09 16:38 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 17:17 ` David Moore
1997-01-09 19:28 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-09 20:38 ` Steinar Bang
1997-01-09 20:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-01-09 23:31 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-09 23:35 ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1997-01-10 0:15 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-01-10 8:03 ` Steinar Bang
1997-01-09 21:51 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-01-10 9:01 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 12:49 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-01-09 16:35 ` Wesley.Hardaker
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