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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:17:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgpxncrf.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v90mrkvu.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:08:37 +0100")

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>> I know that matlab is a commercial product and its license is not
>>> compatible with the GPL, but the same could be said about MS Windows OS
>>> and MacOS and yet GNU Emacs support these OSs.
>>> It would benefit the users of matlab who wish to use GNU Emacs for coding.
>
>> Indeed, it's not completely black or white.  You may want to ask RMS
>> whether this gray is rather dark or light.

> So, it is up to RMS?

> 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?

FWIW the GNU project has a replacement for Matlab named Octave.  Does
this editing mode also work with Octave code?  Does it provide any
features that work with Matlab, but not Octave?

I think these are the important questions here.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-21  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-20 17:53 could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)? Uwe Brauer
2021-11-20 22:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-21  0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21  8:08   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  8:17     ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-11-21  8:25       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:23         ` Po Lu
2021-11-21  9:34           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:55             ` Po Lu
2021-11-21 10:04               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:40               ` dick
2021-11-21 20:16                 ` Andy Moreton
2021-11-21 10:58         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 12:16           ` dick
2021-11-21 14:17           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:15             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 16:25               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:39                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 17:13                   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 14:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21 16:31           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 17:32             ` dick
2021-11-22 13:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-23  6:13               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  8:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  8:32       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  8:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  8:51           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21  9:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21  9:29               ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:32           ` dick
2021-11-21 14:26             ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-22  2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  7:56   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-22 13:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-14 11:51       ` Jean Louis
2022-02-14 11:49   ` Jean Louis
2022-02-16  4:11     ` Richard Stallman

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