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 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. -- 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