From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)? Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:22:26 +0200 Message-ID: <837dd1syt9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878rxiu323.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87v90mrkvu.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23029"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 21 09:22:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1moi7m-0005jm-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:22:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moi7l-0005NL-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 03:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moi7C-0004ho-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 03:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=44612 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moi7C-0006bu-Fd; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 03:22:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=eU5Clxo0TNUvPy/w/5uEYDajrif8EmwPSkg+4CwBRQ0=; b=pO+2HE1/VV2U UZh3SB9HHZ8xIMDMLizZ9PaOrck22tK6mBcS1EjTiAT0s9XyzQzwqM3y2TpfP30TPVtbG1XmYk/DD bzXoIsfnW99wttwC9r9u3XUJAd6xagVI80Ry2Pb4sthw+BQzrLIIOfwleMkSs118hgYo5JA05dOCW glEbpA5RPBIIpFkjxV/NLtwyekXdLlnm4htkSiKNVSRuluynr3CcWf0e9ANYaZnD406jqdeBVh3hN Cw4kwOT64N3mMnPF9XqFZaunFsR7CNg14S8OxQIT6yCkrYwkqF5XLdq/u8STK8K6rvOlpk1puBqsw WY+gghpdj/rcehlA8ywzlg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3942 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moi7C-0008Cm-4Z; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 03:22:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v90mrkvu.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:08:37 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:279824 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:08:37 +0100 > > RMS if you read this: would you allow to have a part of matlab-mode that > interacts with matlab via the so called matlab shell, to be part of ELPA or GNU > emacs? > > Rationale: there is already specific code that allows GNU emacs to be > compiled in non free systems. Can you explain in simple words what is so important about matlab-mode that we'd like to have it in ELPA? Is it syntax support, or is it the fact that you can invoke the REPL of the Matlab interpreter from Emacs, or is it something else? I'm asking because I never understood why people who use Matlab would like to use Emacs in conjunction with Matlab, since the Matlab interactive mode provides so many features that are practically necessary for any reasonable use of Matlab. So what can Emacs possibly add to that?