From xemacs-m  Fri May 23 13:45:29 1997
Received: from altair.xemacs.org (steve@xemacs.miranova.com [206.190.83.19])
	by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA15960
	for <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>; Fri, 23 May 1997 13:45:27 -0500 (CDT)
Received: (from steve@localhost)
	by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16669;
	Fri, 23 May 1997 11:46:10 -0700
Mail-Copies-To: never
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: M-x customize doesn't work without TTY support
References: <kig206ytxa0.fsf@jagor.srce.hr>
X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/
X-Face: #!T9!#9s-3o8)*uHlX{Ug[xW7E7Wr!*L46-OxqMu\xz23v|R9q}lH?cRS{rCNe^'[`^sr5"
 f8*@r4ipO6Jl!:Ccq<xoV[Qz2u8<8-+Vwf2gzJ44lf_/y9OaQ`@#Q65{U4/TC)i2`~/M&QI$X>p:9I
 OSS'2{-)-4wBnVeg0S\O4Al@)uC[pD|+
X-Attribution: sb
From: Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 23 May 1997 10:20:23 +0200
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Date: 23 May 1997 11:46:09 -0700
Message-ID: <m267wani1a.fsf@altair.xemacs.org>
Lines: 12
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.53/XEmacs 20.3(beta3)

> The error is that XEmacs rejects setting of the specifiers the tag of
> which is invalid.  IMHO this is very wrong, and lots of lots of Lisp
> code is broken when running without TTYs or without X, because of
> this.
 ...
> Do the others agree with me?  If yes, I can attempt to fix these bugs.

Agree *strongly*.  The current code is very broken and greatly limits
the usefulness of specifiers.
-- 
steve@calag.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message.

