Subject:	Re: ongoing development on DEmacs
To:	ms AT informatik DOT uni-hannover DOT de (Michael Sperber)
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 92 10:13:51 EDT
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Sender:	turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu

Last time I corresponded with Hirano or Higashida (forget which), they
said it was unlikely that anything would happen with DEmacs soon since
they were involved in trying to port MULE (multi-lingual Emacs), which
gives much better integrated support for Japanese.  (For example,
Japanese emacs-lisp defines an extension to the set of escape
characters, \z, called 'kanji-prefix'.  Since Japanese wraps at every
character, and under an English environment the code that recognizes
kanji-prefix doesn't get invoked, DEmacs wraps lines at 'z' in fill
mode or when fill-xxxx gets called.)
    An alpha version of DEmacs 1.3.0 is on ftp.sigmath.osaka-u.ac.jp,
which has a mid-summer mod date as I recall, but I don't think the DOS
interface was altered much (I took a peek at the code).  I also think
that it was a Japanese-language version which doesn't hurt
English-only users very much but if you are using a character set
which assigns those kanji-prefixes to printing characters it could be
distressing.    
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Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH  43210-1172  USA
Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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