Xemacs21 problems with ESS 5.9.1 ?? [FWD from ESS-debian]

Sebastian P. Luque spluque at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 17:08:49 CEST 2010


On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:17:42 +0200,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

>>>>>> Sebastian P Luque <spluque at gmail.com> on Thu, 03 Jun 2010
>>>>>> 23:40:47 -0500 writes:

>> Hi, I've committed a few changes to ess-rutils.el that Debian sid
>> XEmacs can compile with the same inocuous warnings that GNU Emacs
>> produces.

>> Incidentally, I also found that XEmacs doesn't know `delete-dups'
>> neither, which I used in ess-help.el to find '\alias{}'ed objects, so
>> I replaced that with `ess-uniq-list'.  What a trip into "Emacsen
>> interoperability lane" this was!

> Thanks a lot, Seb!  Yes, it's a painful exercise sometimes.

> Thanks for having done it!

And I thank Dirk for motivating me to do it.  He's wondering whether to
wait for the next release to produce a new Debian package with these
changes, given that 5.10 is already slated in the source.


-- 
Seb



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