> > While it helps to just report bugs and with due respect, it's not > > reasonable to claim that the Emacs developers don't give the Window port a > > high priority, > > If you could cite from a message where I _claimed_ that, it would be > much easier for me to respond to that.
I'm not asking you to respond to it, just to reflect on it. > After rereading my message, I think I didn't claim anything about Emacs > development, but only wrote up some personal experiences I've made with > Emacs on Windows during the last years. I was referring to: Peter Tury> I hope you can regenerate the situation easily and fix this bug. SH> I hope so, too. But unfortunately, given the fact that it's known for SH> nearly two years, I don't think the issue has high priority for the SH> developers. If that's related to the fact that it's only present in the SH> Windows port, I don't know. SH> At this time, you can't tell a person from Windows island to have a look SH> at LaTeX & Emacs+AUCTeX. He'd laugh at you and say: "It can't even SH> scroll your files without flickering. I like <favourite> Office SH> better." Well, I don't know what auditorium Emacs targets to. But it's SH> obviously not (new) Windows users. First impression failed. > > if you're not in a position to even test the patches which are > > provided. > > Even if I were able to compile and test patches I don't think that > brought me into a position to claim anything about Emacs development. It would give your opinion more weight. > I'll try my best to make my points more clear in the future, but > honestly, I can't see yours. Currently, I tend to guess you're trying > to say: "You'd better shut up as long as you're not an active > developer!" Not at all. Just that the state of the Windows port reflects the level of contributions from the user community, of which you are a part. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
