Re: [Bug-zile] Alpha release: any blockers?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 17 August 2011 03:02, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> * You might consider porting the simplification to keycode mapping from
>  the Lua branch:
>
>    
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/zile.git/commit/?h=lua&id=12f17f1b0a3ce30e2a803113fa6fd7f430ea7b1b
>
>  Although, I've reintroduced the bug with quoted-insert, which I'm
>  currently fixing, so if you want to put that in the alpha, please
>  check for a followup that lets tests/interactive-quoted-insert.el
>  work again :)

In that case I'll happily wait until the bug is fixed. Further, what
would the equivalent simplification be in C, given that we don't have
a C equivalent of table.invert?

> * The FAQ entry on C-h/F1-F4 could do with updating again in light of
>  our long discussion about Terminal.app, which I'll do presently...
>  while I like your simplification, rebuilding against a newer curses
>  is both difficult

Au contraire:

$ wget <URL>
$ tar <TARBALL>
$ cd <DIRECTORY>
$ ./configure && sudo make install
$ cd <ZILE-DIRECTORY>
$ ./configure && make # assuming we have sane paths; on Mac OS X,
where by default /usr comes before /usr/local, we need to prefix
CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include CPPFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib, though again
one is better off fixing the defaults for the sake of other builds

> and unnecessary for the terminfo problems on
>  Mac OS X, so I think that is worth mentioning.

I see you've updated the FAQ.

> * It would be nice to agree on and implement a splash-screen format
>  on the active branches too, per the famous (/me takes great care to
>  paste the correct URL):
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-zile/2011-08/msg00037.html

Congrats on getting the right URL :)

Here's a step-by-step critique:

==========================================================================
Welcome to GNU Zile.

Get Help        C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)

For this, I would want to implement something like Emacs's extra
prompts. I don't think I can be bothered. Zile is designed for people
who already know Emacs, hence my stripping out of a lot of help and
tutorials over the years; Zile users won't need them and they're a
maintenance burden.

View Zile FAQ   C-c h

We don't have this command. (At least, not on the C branch.)

Visit new file  C-x C-f

Emacs's splash screen doesn't have this command, as of 24.0.50.1.

Undo changes    C-x u       Exit Zile       C-x C-c
(`C-' means use the CTRL key.  `M-' means hold the META (or ALT) key.
If you have no META key, you may type ESC followed by the character.)

We have all of this.

GNU Zile 2.4.0.60
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Yup.

GNU Zile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Zile is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies
of Zile and modify it; see the file COPYING. Otherwise, a copy can be
downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

I've added this, thanks.

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