Date:	21 Nov 2000 00:22:36 -0000
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From:	Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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	Zaretskii on Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:22:14 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: DJGPP and Emacs 21
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   As you might or might not know, Emacs 21 supports colors on a Unix
   character terminal.  ``Big deal'', you might think; however, GNU/Linux
   users were asking for this for years, and didn't get it till now.
   Evidently, many users don't want, or cannot afford, running X; go
   figure.

I believe it's an Emacs-over-telnet thing.

Yes, we fought the colours battle long ago in djgpp-emacs.  I think
we won through good design.

DJGPP is also the source of Emacs' internal timers.  We couldn't
handle having an external program poke Emacs at regular intervals.
(A terrible design, btw.)

However, I think we still have those int86 lisp-level functions
around.  A major lapse of judgement from my side.  Eli, IMHO it's
time they get evicted.  Ever since you moved video mode setting
into set-frame-height (or whereever) they really haven't had any
use.

Morten

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