From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How much I can rely on etc/TODO Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <660a63e0-430a-c1d2-2dca-a764493be2cf@gnu.org> <83zhp07501.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9zn7m0g.fsf@gnu.org> <83tvf56eu1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="125493"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: lxsameer@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 10 23:53:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hELAC-000WVO-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:53:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hELAB-0001Lt-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEL9V-0001KQ-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEL9V-0000jQ-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hEL9T-0003Po-IF; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83tvf56eu1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:48:54 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:235257 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. ]]] > I don't remember Emacs development ever advancing according to plan. > It would be nice to have that, I agree, but I don't think it's > possible in practice. People work on what they feel like working; That's the attitude that Emacs developers have now. But it is not inevitable. Let's try to lead and inspire people to work on some things that would be a big advance. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)