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: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:55:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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="124296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: excalamus@tutanota.com, van.ly+2020@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 04:56:21 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 1jfx6D-000WDa-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfx6C-0004CZ-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfx5d-0003lf-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfx5a-0001vM-CB; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jfx5Z-0006NK-Gn; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:55:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:21:03 +0700) 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:251749 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. ]]] > More importantly, a single Emacs will force identical configuration on > all collaborating users. And, instead of collaborating, they will > curse and bicker over every small convenience each of them has become > used to. If they use one single Emacs, that will happen. > > Or perhaps one Emacs could be the "server", and the others act as clients, > > maintaining mirrors of the document. > However, it then follows that each instance is going to have its own > supporting tools. So, a power user who has an elaborate setup with > LSP, flycheck, whatever, will not be able to share the advantages of > his setup with a newbie. If each has per own Emacs, that will happen. To avoid both of those problems, we need some other way, but what could it be? -- 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)