From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83sh9es8jw.fsf@gnu.org> <2cdaa88f-f31e-e05c-a940-d83e25c9c167@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520291206 7713 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 23:06:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, eliz@gnu.org, raeburn@raeburn.org, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 00:06:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBn-0001Bq-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:06:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszDp-0001W6-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAw-0008Nu-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAv-0005zH-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAn-0005sp-5H; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAm-0006Pz-Fa; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <2cdaa88f-f31e-e05c-a940-d83e25c9c167@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:18:29 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223309 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Personally, I don't think word processing is a good focus for Emacs. I want to do my word processing in Emacs, so please stop interfering. You, personally, can work on other areas if that area doesn't interest you. The improvements you suggested for editing programs are also desirable. We want to improve what Emacs can do in editing programs. One of the improvements we need is to have a GNU language server and connect it to Emacs. The best proposal for how to make a GNU language server is to do it by building on GDB. However, Emacs is also meant for editing textual documents. To make that easier, we need more support for editing and saving formatted documents with various fonts. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.