Calc from CVS Emacs

[Adrian Aichner]

Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger at gmail.com> writes:

> "Adrian Aichner" <adrian at xemacs.org> writes:
> ...
>> Hello Jay, thanks for contacting us!
>
> You're welcome!  I suppose I should have introduced myself as the 
> Calc maintainer for Emacs.
>
>> Perhaps we could discuss which checks bother you.
>
> None of them, actually.  But if there was no chance of them ever being
> used, I thought they could be eliminated (and make the code slightly
> cleaner).  Since there is the possibility of some code migration, I'll
> leave them in.  However, they will change from looking at the value of 
> `calc-emacs-type-lucid' 
> (whose value is `(not (not (string-match "Lucid" emacs-version)))') 
> to using 
> `(featurep 'xemacs)' 

Yes, that's a good change!

> which is of course better for optimization.  XEmacs's Calc uses the same
> test  (in slightly different places, due I suppose to minor code drift;

Our source changes from GNU Emacs should be preceded by a line like
;; XEmacs change

> I haven't compared them too thoroughly), and I assume also changing it
> to a feature test in XEmacs's Calc wouldn't be a bad idea.

Yes.

>
>> Hopefully someone on XEmacs-Beta at xemacs.org will indicate interested
>> to get XEmacs calc synced up soonish.
>
> If that happens, feel free to get in touch with me with any questions,
> etc.  There have been a few changes in Emacs Calc which I think it would
> be worth adding to the XEmacs version (in my not exactly unbiased
> opinion). 

Great!  Thanks for the offer!

Best regards!

Adrian

>
> Best regards,
> Jay
>
>

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