>>> [...skull-and-crossbones with text warning...] >> That looks identical to the comment at the head of display.c from >> the Gosling derivative I use. > Yes, it's the same in the copy of Gosling Emacs I got. I asked > Gosling himself, and he referred me to Brian Reid. He got it from > Gosling in 1983, and it was modified at DEC over the years. What > pedigree is your copy?
I got it from a prerelase of Eunice, obtained because one of the people behind Eunice personally knew some people at the lab I was then hanging out at. ("Then" is mid-'80s sometime.) Once I started using a real Unix (4.2c, then 4.3 shortly after that, then SunOS, then....) I ripped out the special-case Eunice code and have been maintaining (and slowly evolving) it over the years since then. Incidentally (and only partially releatedly), the comment means what it says. I once tried to rewrite that module, to teach myself how it worked, and succeeded in nothing but slowing it down by about a factor of some 2 to 3 and introducing assorted bugs as well. Someday I'm going to find the time to really figure it out. I don't know how to usefully describe what sort of version it is; that is, I don't know what information would be useful to you. If you can describe a useful test, I can see what it gives.... /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B