At 04:42  23/2/01 +1100, Conor MacNeill wrote:
>why?

why not? ;)

The main reason to add it is that a lot of editors (vi/vim/emacs/xemacs are
the ones I know) will automagically parse the version with -emacs flag
detecting errors. Some editors (emacs/xemacs) can instead adapt to ants
build method but there are others that can't so ... ;)


Cheers,

Pete

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