Clément Pit--Claudel writes: > On 12/29/2015 07:09 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: >> Since adding feature to GNU Emacs that give more advantage to >> non-free platforms might encourage the latter > > I don't think many people care whether they are using GNU Emacs or a fork thereof, so I'm not sure it would change much to the current situation (people on MacOS can use a version of Emacs that has more features than the ones available on GNU/Linux). > >> this seems to make a stronger case in favor of adding support for all >> (?) of the features in question on GNU/Linux than doing anything >> else, like merging Emacs Mac Port. > > Fully agreed; it seems clear to me that the priority is in getting more of these features in Emacs for GNU/Linux. > > I was just pointing out that as due to the current situation, I've had people > point out to me that my Emacs experience would be nicer on MacOS than on > GNU/Linux (and they are right: the best Emacs experience today is not on > GNU/Linux). These people were not running GNU Emacs, but indeed that doesn't > matter in terms of freedom (though it does matter in terms of using GNU Emacs to > promote the GNU project). FWIW emacs of Mac OS X (any of the versions I tried before just installing debian on my macbook) have significantly degraded buffer performance compared to Linux. I believe bugs were filed about it but most of the core dev team don't have a mac to test on. If you do any heavy buffer updating (like using emacs as a terminal emulator) you can actually slow down the process creating the output. So no, even from a practical sense you would not have a nicer experience in MacOS IMHO.