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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 14 Apr 1997 04:56:46 +0200
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de> writes:
> 
> > I don't see how time.el starts anything by loading the package. The
> > only glitch I found is that it (temporarily) changes the modeline
> > global string and that this change stays visible until the next
> > redisplay event occurs. This can be easily avoided (I'll send a patch
> > to Steve).
> > 
> > But it doesn't start the display-time function or anything other evil.
> > It's different wih id-select, on the other hand.
> 
> Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Te absolvo.
 
> > This is because the old time.el didn't have this functionality
> > before I made all these extensions. The plan is to make a unified
> > time that hold all of reportmail I found useful... Still there are
> > people preferring the old time/reportmail behaviour.
> 
> I don't think it's a good practice to have two (or more) packages that
> do the exact same things, and have even their *variables* called
> equally.
> 
> If time.el really can do everything reportmail can, then it's just a
> matter of some people being whimsical, not of a real fault of XEmacs'.
> 

the main problem at the moment seems to be that time.el relies on
balloon-help to provide for information that reportmail just pushes
into the echo area or the modeline. So people on tty are out, as are
people that don't like to load balloon help. 

I will change this behaviour as soon as posible (With the constraints
being my work and some modification that will be in a future
balloon-help which I hope will be out soon, if I understood Kyle
right)

	jtl

