Ben's XEmacs page

Ben's current to-do list (seriously out-dated!)

Ben's plan of action for the next few months w.r.t. XEmacs (seriously out-dated!)

Here are my opinions on why the XEmacs/GNU Emacs split continues to exist, and why it can't be reconciled as long as RMS is ultimately calling the shots on the GNU Emacs end.

CAVEAT: This is only my own, personal opinion. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the XEmacs community, the XEmacs developers, the XEmacs Review Board, or anyone else.

NOTE: Architecting XEmacs has moved.

XEmacs CVS utilities:

Developing XEmacs using CVS can be somewhat of a hassle, but is made easier with the following utilities:

cvs-diff, a Perl script front end to `cvs diff': it works around CVS bugs, speeds the operation up, and adds many useful features.
cvs-update, a Perl script front end to `cvs update': it contains many useful features such as automatically merging changed ChangeLogs.
cvs-mods, a utility Perl script needed by the previous two.
cvs-merge-diff, a Perl script for showing the diff between various versions of a file, after a merge conflict.
cvs-fix-chlogs: Equivalent to what cvs-update does when fixing ChangeLog conflicts. Useful if you updated directly with `cvs update' rather than the cvs-update script.

Mule-related documentation:

NOTE: Nearly all of these are suggestions for future work, often including (in greater or lesser detail) ideas for how to implement the features, API’s and/or overall architecture designs. These are notes rather than fully fleshed-out documents, and sometimes are quite raw. These were generally written between March and May, 2000. In some cases, the work was actually done, and in a few other cases it sits mostly done, but most items on the list have not yet been implemented.

--Ben Wing, January 2004

1. bidi-support
Description: Support for bi-directional text (BiDi)
Status: NYI

2. bug-fixes-performance-improvements
Description: Notes concerning some Mule-related bug-fixes and performance improvements done c. June 2000
Status: NYI

3. coding-system-aliases
Description:
Status: NYI

4. composite-char-support
Description:
Status: NYI

5. conversion-internal-external
Description:
Status: NYI

6. eistring
Description:
Status: NYI

7. full-support-for-unicode
Description:
Status: NYI

8. general-improvements
Description:
Status: NYI

9. generalize-display-table-to-all-chars
Description:
Status: NYI

10. generalized-coding-systems
Description:
Status: NYI

11. generalized-language-appropriate-word-wrapping
Description:
Status: NYI

12. glyph-shaping-ala-arabic-and-devanagari
Description:
Status: NYI

13. implementation-of-8-16-32-optimization
Description:
Status: NYI

14. improve-autodetection-mechanism
Description:
Status: NYI