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: MINI-PATCH: add how to turn auto-completion in test buffers off Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:26:30 +0300 Message-ID: <86r0fex4xl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <868r1p1u21.fsf@gnu.org> <86zfu5z93q.fsf@gnu.org> <86a5m4ytzn.fsf@gnu.org> <9ABD0212-9EC4-4F3F-9E7C-46DF6ADBD451@gmail.com> <86edbfya1t.fsf@gnu.org> <87bk6j3dbv.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87il0r15x3.fsf@dataswamp.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29321"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 09 11:27:29 2024 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 1ru7lI-0007PV-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:27:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ru7kT-0002Yk-2b; Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ru7kR-0002YW-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ru7kP-0004VP-Ex; Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:26:34 -0400 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=pjjTlFTaf2g5p+eWfISYPe066AUSoGPGA/JCX4Dj93s=; b=TmzkSzD2oVVt 597bSeL5u0CICoDZPmk4WiYQjprZMr2CUhNa1lnYEZjpz8chW3qpXeH+R9caTD1CaA5Ff9OTIZI2W GBhtuJE/ILRFokveT6V/6X87z8pXJBqaOxKplh42AwiWZCTALZ2p1bUJnPhjwbJwzCRJsp2NmgU6n B5oz7hcPQNDFR7jAkYGRIQtGVruwBSPvxYG8Tsy8WQnp8p/DI5bzu4qlbXnVSLzUooE3WenBD8uqc 1RtyexE5u1JYHeOghqSv4YlW2ABarG2mWk1hweq4yBH1gbPXCYQxGKhCqfq/LDOw9DSB269Vv4y3q ByD6+XF7/QumeICcDtmj8Q==; In-Reply-To: <87il0r15x3.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:06:16 +0200) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:317643 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:06:16 +0200 > > tomas wrote: > > >>> Free _customizable_ software. > >> > >> Okay, is that a new phrase people are pushing for to > >> describe something? > > > > Eli's right: you can (a) make a free software which > > encourages users to adapt it (documentation, reflexion > > (think C-h f) and so on) or (b) make free software which is > > so fiendishly impenetrable ("no serviceable parts inside") > > that users better don't. > > You can make a lot of things but it doesn't affect the > software being free or not as that is a legal term. There are no legal aspects here, so don't worry about that. It was just an assertion that Emacs is not only Free Software, but also customizable to a very large degree, something that is not necessarily true for every Free Software project out there, certainly not to such a degree.