> Well, it's too bad the emacs developers are lagging behind the vim > developers in this area, but it might (or might not) have something to > do with the fact that certain obnoxious people like me were bugging > the vim folks incessantly to get their Unicode story straight for a > couple of years before they actually did it. :-)
About 10 years ago I wrote an email to Richard Stallman, who was at that time the maintainer for Emacs. And I asked him about Unicode. But at that time he had already thought of his own thing, slightly different than unicode, maybe slightly smarter... And he wrote me that this would be the way to go. :-(
I get the impression that Unicode-support has kind of gone on top of this stuff and I must admit that the way I am currently using Unicode is to edit the stuff with \ucafe\ubabe-kind of replacements and run perlscripts to convert for example my private html-format into WWW-html. No, we should remind the Emacs-developers that the Unicode-support is at least pretty hard to handle for slightly below average users like me...
> I would in particular like to thank Bram Moolenaar for not writing us > out of the book of life for all our whining. The Unicode support in > vim has been rock solid, and we are grateful.
Maybe I'll start using that one day. ;-)
Sorry for the off-topic, but I think that it has some importance for Perl in the sense that it is good to go the right way and not to wait until Emacs supports it out of the box without 1435 lines of lisp.
Best regards,
Karl
P.S. Don't get me wrong: RMS is a good guy and he has done a lot of useful and good stuff, part of which many of us are using all the time.
P.P.S. I don't think that RMS is the current maintainer of Emacs.
