Re: National Language Support Functions

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 12/30/06, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:

> I could be more neutral, you are right. But again, some help would be
> appreciated.

I'm not talking about neutrality, nor asking you to be neutral. I'm
countering your argument that your patches are good for new users
*because* more people downloads your patched Emacs than the unpatched
Emacs you also distribute.

> Since MS Windows is
> not the main target this makes it problematic to convince people.

I don't think it is hard to convince people, for real problems.
Perhaps you perceive as problems things that not many people see as
such.

> I think it just fell off the wayside.

If you're so convinced it is a problem, you should push harder IMHO.

> What a you trying to say? That the ability to use those keys as meta
> should be ruled out because it brakes the Windows UI guidelines?

No. I'm saying that IMO your opinion in that regard is wrong: the
issue is not uncontroversial.

> But steeling Alt is a far worse
> thing than steeling the Windows keys.

I just happen to disagree. Stealing neither one seems bad to me.

> It as complex as it needs to be
> and as simple as it can be.

That's only true if you factor the gain out of the equation.

                   /L/e/k/t/u