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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 08 Jan 1997 02:43:35 +0100
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Chuck Thompson (cthomp@xemacs.org) wrote:
> one way and half were another.  We had already cleaned so much other
> stuff up that we finally decided that we didn't care if it wasn't
> consistent with Emacs anymore.

This is an easy thing to do once you make up your mind about XEmacs
being your only target.  Unfortunately, for many people this is not
so.  They want their Lisp code to work on both GNU Emacs and XEmacs.

This fact creates a big problem that will not be solved easily, other
than by one of the Emacsen dying away. :-(

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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