On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:40:14 +0200, Helmut Eller heller@common-lisp.net wrote:
Well, I don't know how long it takes to get a small change (less than 20 lines) into CVS Emacs. It definitely takes ages until you can convince them to change some C code. It took two months before my server socket changes showed up in CVS. I also had to sign papers. Small changes don't need papers and can probably integrated a lot faster.
But I think it would be better to keep the indentation code in Emacs than to make a fork.
Yes, it's one thing to get code into Emacs. The other problem is to actually see a new release which incorporates this code. E.g., there are a couple of bugs in the font-locking code for Lisp which IIRC have been fixed in CVS long ago. However, the last substantial release is now more than two years ago (21.4. was just a security fix) so the bugs are still in there.
One could, in theory, build Emacs from CVS from time to time, but a) I'm reluctant to depend on supposedly "unstable" software the whole day and b) I'm too dumb to build Emacs on Wintendo.
I'd prefer if a current, working version of the indentation code at least would be part of SLIME.
Just my EUR 0.02.
Cheers, Edi.