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Rick Campbell <rickc@lehman.com> writes:

> In theory, ILISP is backward compatible to something like 18.56,
> although in practice I seriously doubt that anyone takes advantage
> of that.

Let's see.  ILISP is one of jwz's favorite packages, right?

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:34:34 -0800
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
Subject: you should make sure this stuff gets into 19.15
 ...
reportmail.el -- some needledick went and took out all of the v18
  compatibility.  Don't fuckin' do that.  It makes my life hell when
  I find myself on a machine on which I haven't installed XEmacs yet,
  or when I need to use v18 because of it's better tty support.

> If FSF's GNU Emacs has the completer built in, we should probably
> just drop the ILISP copy altogether in the next release.

I'll never remember this, be sure to remind me at the appropriate
time.

