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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: dired/gnus on a tty
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Sudish Joseph writes:
 > Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > > What should be the correct behaviour, and the correct test for a
 > > package writer?
 > 
 > (and (console-on-window-system-p) (featurep 'menubar))
 > 
 > The feature test is A Good Thing and should most definitely be there.
 > I just found out I can't use the latest ediff because it assumes that
 > toolbars are always compiled in.

I wisht they were always compiled in.  It just makes code
needlessly complex and buggy to have this large permutation of
possible build states.  Just testing VM under the basic four
(with-X, without-X, tty, X) is more than I have time to do
most of the time.  Add in --with-menubars=no, -with-scrollbars=no,
--with-toolbars=no, and it gets really wild.  I _think_ I have
it working, but I surely haven't tested it all.

I could understand it if we were still running on PDP-11s, but
thankfully those days are behind us.  Whittling XEmacs down the
smallest memory footprint at the expense of code maintenance is
shifting costs in the wrong direction.

