>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader >>>>> <[email protected]> writes:
>>> > 21.5.b35 was released in May 2023. >>> I'm aware of it. It's an attempt to pull a zombie into real life, >>> which can never work. :) > [ I don't know what was the purpose, but indeed that release doesn't > prove that XEmacs development is still ongoing: If you look at the > commit history you'll see that there were *very* few commits in that > new release. Not sure if it deserves to be described as pulling > a zombie into real life, tho. ] >> But the zombie still functions perfectly well to do work (as zombies >> do). The idea that because something is static, it must be obsolete, >> is one I've never understood. > +1 > Especially since we're on the VM mailing list 🙂 > For that reason the patch I sent months ago (which mainly aims to > make the code a bit more futureproof by enabling `lexical-binding` > and then addressing compiling warnings) doesn't drop XEmacs support. I think I've been the most recent enduser pushing to get more work done on VM because I love using it and don't want to change. I did start looking into changing the mutt keybindings to match that of VM... but that's a big task as well since they're very different how they work. In any case, getting some patches flowing on a git repo where we can pull and test and propose updates would be awesome. Launchpad is just not an ideal development platform in my eyes. I really do appreciate all the people chiming in here and offering options and support and such, I think it just goes to show that a good tool can be kept alive. XEmacs seems to work too, but unfortunately the world moves on and changes. As shown by the problems with VM and emacs 28+ causing some problems.
