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: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tujbqg4j.fsf@gnu.org> <46353190-1190-495f-b15e-22980159b3ab@yandex.ru> <83y28mp0rb.fsf@gnu.org> <51a363db-fde7-791d-cf8d-98ac601d62ee@yandex.ru> <57ca4d78-2339-201d-edce-678c9b003a99@yandex.ru> <83bl5dsh8b.fsf@gnu.org> <8335qps8vs.fsf@gnu.org> <9471c28f-8eae-b555-ee86-9fffd6229937@yandex.ru> <87r1e690n8.fsf_-_@posteo.net> <9d5a2f83-d564-22e1-0cbd-df760044528f@yandex.ru> <837dfyyxyl.fsf@gnu.org> <64ec57fc-4cd0-4e4a-1139-de1c3ddc8d82@yandex.ru> <83sfylykhx.fsf@gnu.org> <83lf4dyhel.fsf@gnu.org> 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="35560"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 05:46:13 2021 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 1mMj6j-00094S-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 05:46:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36204 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj6h-0000QF-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5H-0006jx-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5G-0006vf-QG; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5D-0001Xm-63; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 4 Sep 2021 04:32:50 +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:273982 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. ]]] > The goals of having Emacs "evolve and adapt" and having it stay the same > are inherently at odds. That's true. It is commonplace for an activity to have multiple goals that are partly in conflict. So we need to look for approaches that allow us to get some of one and some of the other. Adding new features that are disabled by default is one of our ways of doing that. Sometimes we can find specific clever ways to get a little more of both by reconciling the desiderata. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)