From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Discuss] Nested buffer
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:54:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180724165418.GA8629@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19151eff43b77d7548828a8ed98c160e@webmail.orcon.net.nz>
Hello, Phil.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:15:20 +1200, Phil Sainty wrote:
> On 2018-07-24 08:31, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
> > I think anything that was covered by the islands proposals
> That sprang to my mind too. What is the current state of the
> "islands" work? Is it still just a discussion, or is there
> code as well?
Neither, really. :-( I still think it is a sound proposal, but the
amount of work involved in implementing it would be so immense that it
would take a team of three to six people to do it. It would certainly be
beyond my abilities to do on my own. My feeling, when the topic was
under discussion, was that the requisite enthusiasm and commitment wasn't
there. To be honest, that would be expecting rather a lot.
A project of that size would inevitably involve coordination, and other
project management things, like agreeing on interfaces, and possibly
having deadlines and such. There's no experience of anything like this
in the Emacs project, at least, not that I'm aware of.
So I don't think that the "islands" proposal is going to get implemented.
Which is a pity.
[ .... ]
> -Phil
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-23 16:03 [Feature Discuss] Nested buffer fei xiaobo
2018-07-23 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-24 3:33 ` Harry Fei
2018-07-24 7:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-07-24 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-24 14:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2018-07-24 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 4:41 ` Van L
2018-07-24 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-07-24 15:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-07-24 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-23 20:11 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-23 20:31 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-23 23:15 ` Phil Sainty
2018-07-24 1:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-24 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-24 16:54 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2018-07-25 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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