Re: isearch multiple buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:55:20 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Er, I was arguing for _dropping_ support for msdos, even if continuing
> >> it proves possible.
> >
> > But no one is supporting it except myself, for years.  This support
> > costs the rest of maintainers exactly zero effort.  So why should
> > someone except myself be bothered about it?
> 
> Because the 8.3 name restriction has a negative effect for _all_
> developers.

What negative effects? can you show them in the archives?  AFAIR, this
is about the first such issue in years.