From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13822"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jamtlu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 04:48:51 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 1kMMk6-0003Tf-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45560 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMk5-0007KL-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMeK-0000pZ-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMeJ-00058R-N2; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMeI-0001lJ-UO; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:06:29 +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:256510 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. ]]] > And even a personal incentive: nobody likes to answer the same questions > again and again. > But it would have to be an official GNU initiative. Probably done by the > one of the current Emacs maintainers, or some other people who still > have the authority to make significant changes in Emacs. It is not useful to propose this in the abstract. An argument about whether this is a desirable feature is not useful. If you propose a concrete design, people can refine it through discussion, Then maybe we can decide we would like it. -- 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)