On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Dave Love wrote:
> EZ> (IIRC, tex-mode relies on async subprocesses; what I'm actually
> EZ> asking is whether this require will prevent byte-compilation on
> EZ> MSDOG, even if tex-mode is not actually used.)
>
> I've no idea -- you'd have to tell me -- but if so I think you need to
> address it more generally so that we don't have to worry about it
> whenever we require something.
Fixing tex-mode (and texinfo.el as well) is on my endless todo list. God
knows when I'll get to that.
I hoped that it's easy to check what I asked about if you fset
start-process to throw an error. But if that's too complicated,
I will install your patch and try it.