From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:19:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <863691n4xl.wl-me@enzu.ru> <86blno9yle.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87d0845msg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h7xgjasw.fsf@yahoo.com> <875zdwjais.fsf@yahoo.com> <6a198677-41b6-4dbd-39d0-2b01550d53cf@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="17106"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: me@enzu.ru, joseph.h.garvin@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, ndame@protonmail.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 04:19:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jQM2N-0004N5-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:19:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56230 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQM2M-0003T9-Dl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45266 helo=eggs1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQM1f-0002KD-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33416) by eggs1p.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQM1e-0002Ng-JZ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jQM1d-0007n9-BV; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:19:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6a198677-41b6-4dbd-39d0-2b01550d53cf@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:59:17 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247351 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. ]]] > > Perhaps we could focus on adding missing features to Emacs' display > > engine (such as the aformentioned fancy graphics, and also some other > > important features that RMS has mentioned, such as variable-pitch > > indentation). > I'm pretty sure neither "fancy graphics" inside file buffers, nor > variable-pitch indentation are the reason for VS Code's popularity. That statement may be correct, but you've changed the topic. You're talking specifically about VS Code, which is a "source code editor". What I had in mind, regarding variable-pitch text, was word processing. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)