From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-directory breakage Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 15:09:25 -0700 Message-ID: <481F8595.1040705@emf.net> References: <20080505152149.E5BB99F054B@snark.thyrsus.com> <857ie8ahr3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y76ooj4k.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <853aowah55.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85y76o91r7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87abj4oh3v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210023066 19244 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 21:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Guerry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 23:31:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt8Hc-00043W-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 23:31:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt8Gu-000096-BX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt8D6-00077s-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt8D4-00076w-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54302 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt8D4-00076l-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.42inc.com ([205.149.0.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt8D4-0001O5-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 17:26:58 -0400 X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.5 X-TFF-CGPSA-Filter-42inc: Scanned X-42-Virus-Scanned: by 42 Antivirus -- Found to be clean. Original-Received: from [69.236.114.9] (account lord@emf.net HELO [192.168.1.64]) by mail.42inc.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPA id 29854434; Mon, 05 May 2008 14:26:42 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) In-Reply-To: <87abj4oh3v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96542 Archived-At: >>>> There is not much I could say about gastroenteritis that would be >>>> ontopic in emacs-devel. I hesitated thrice before replying to this threatening-to-be-distracting "joke" thread and still found myself feeling it couldn't hurt: In a pandemic, we could well find many programmers decommissioned and, concurrently, a need to improvise novel, powerful, user-facing computer applications to help society hold things together. In such circumstance, Emacs has much to offer. It is modest in its requirements of the software stack below it. It has an implementation that, at core, one or a very few programmers can maintain and extend. It affords its users a programming environment with a rich improvisational capacity, even if the resulting applications are "crude" by today's most popular UI / look-and-feel expectations. It is very valuable and rare that way so one thing to keep in mind as I.D.E. support is added is to K.I.S.S. -t