Re: Not a timetable

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

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

> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> 
> Lars> Since Emacs 20.3 looks like it's going to be usable, and since there
> Lars> have been quite a lot of nice things introduced in (X)Emacs 20 over
> Lars> (X)Emacs 19 (lisp-wise), pgnus will ditch support for (X)Emacs 19.
> 
> That is a shame.  Regardless of FSF Emacs 20.3's usability, it will still
> have MULE.  That, in and of itself, is a big reason why many will not be
> downgrading from 19.34.

For a while, pretesting for Emacs 20.3, I have `export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1'
in `~/.bash_login', and this makes Emacs pretty usable for me.

But I do not have anymore those ultra-nice displays of Asian characters,
and *that* is a shame.  I do intend to stop using EMACS_UNIBYTE at some time,
but given my humble abilities, I just cannot pretest everything at once.

All this to say that you should not fear Emacs 20.3.  I honestly think it
has a lot of features well worth switching away from Emacs 19.  If MULE
works well, just take it as a gift.  If it creates problem, then stick
EMACS_UNIBYTE in your environment, until MULE gets fully dependable.

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