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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Emacs 23.3 uploaded
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:13:35 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi again, just some more random comments,

> > > I know you prefer (or
> > > recommend?) installing inside the DJGPP tree, but what if there is no
> > > DJGPP tree?
>
> > Then you will need to copy the djgpp.env file to the grand-parent
> > directory of the top-level Emacs directory, the one above the
> > `gnu/emacs' directory, and you will need to point the DJGPP
> > environment variable to that djgpp.env file. =A0That's all, I think,
> > except that if you don't have a `bin' directory with ports of GNU
> > software, quite a few Emacs features won't work because they need
> > those external programs.

I double-checked the emacs23.README file, it doesn't mention DJGPP.ENV
at all (but does say put `gnu/emacs/bin' in your PATH). I know you
probably just briefly edited it from the old version, but IMHO, it
should say a few extra things:

* Vista/7 have DPMI bugs, registry hack may help (but may need
recompile with "system malloc") [I know this is probably in INSTALL
already]
* NT 4 LFNs probably work with NTLFN driver / TSR combo [but NT 4 is
quite rare these days]
* not every programming language *.el for font lock (syntax
highlighting) is included by default, e.g. Oberon, Rexx, etc. [why?
GNU policy??]
* htmlize (or whatever it's called) is now included [forgot to test
it]
* no more MULE by default but real Unicode!
* man + less + gawk + sed isn't needed, just use "woman" (w/o man)

Bugs:
* (old, not important) if you have something like '"' (double quote
inside single), it will screw up syntax highlighting for the rest of
the file, which is somewhat annoying.   ;-)
* not sure, but I don't think it highlighted *.mod (Modula-2) by
default at all (unlike others), I may have had to do it manually
[incidentally my attempts a few months ago to compile GM2/GCC 4.1.2
via DJGPP failed]

Yeah, I know, there are tons of little details like that (and I forgot
to check if you ever added cp853 support, heh, but I doubt you did, no
biggie anyways, nobody cares, and me only barely).

P.S. gomoku still beats my ass, and while zone works, it seems to hang
if done on finished gomoku buffer (oops). And BTW, having yow with
only a single sentence is pointless, why don't the GNU peeps just
write their own copylefted taglines??   :-P

Long story short: huge thanks for your efforts! (I need to announce
this for the FreeDOS peeps.)   >:D<