Re: Emacs 19.7

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From: Per Abrahamsen
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 02:06

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>>>>> On 27 May 1993 15:46:53 GMT, Jim.Rees@umich.edu said:

Jim.Rees> apparently won't do mouse-drag hiliting

It kind of can do that with transient-mark-mode, but not as nice as
e.g. Lucid. 

Jim.Rees> There are apparently some political bugs with emacs as well.
Jim.Rees> For example, the code to make emacs run on Apollo Domain/OS
Jim.Rees> has been around for years, but rms refuses to incorporate it
Jim.Rees> in to emacs without getting signatures on paperwork from the
Jim.Rees> authors of the Apollo code.

This is a `legal bug', RMS won't use other peoples code without their
written permission.  He has been burned on this issue before.

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