David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Is using" is an exaggeration. I checked out version 1.1 (from 1990), > and the only "uses" for it are the aliases. I doubt that this has ever > been different (in spite of the following changelog entries), but if > somebody has older versions around, he can check this for historical > accuracy.
The old RCS history was once available on fencepost, but unfortunately I can't find it any more. The text of the changelog suggests a different use in former days. > Even if at one time before 1990 it might have been the case that the > mode was not merely aliased, I doubt that pre-1990 compatibility is a > major concern nowadays. But you can't claim that AUCTeX is "owning" the names either, since they are clearly older. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
