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: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:08:53 -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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520541039 22869 195.159.176.226 (8 Mar 2018 20:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 20:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Toon Claes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 21:30:34 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 1eu2BM-0005oe-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:30:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu2DP-0006yP-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:32:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1qg-0004IX-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1qf-0003WR-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1qP-0003Lf-Tl; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1qP-0004UL-Hp; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:08:53 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Toon Claes on Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:44:28 +0100) 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:223516 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. ]]] > But still having great multiple major mode support--with islands having > their own major and minor modes--would make Emacs a more modern editor. I strongly support the request. -- 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.