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: Implementing Vertical Text support in Emacs Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:48:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83r13sttj6.fsf@gnu.org> <87wndi6xau.fsf@yahoo.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="28274"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sameer Singh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 00:49:15 2022 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 1o1yId-0007CW-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:49:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1yIb-0006bt-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1yHm-0005vb-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1yHm-0002oK-0t; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:48:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=PO35Pmot1uma6F3xp7NVPSGKWF9Ko9cIOaBivR3OpvE=; b=HgRqXQnzaS5s 8O2y/VLeFqXa1Zirkqc3YAadm8dCtd8EIwPz+itc0epjIaE6b9h9mG9khBMuBNZYgAaK/fcykrbVg X81ZOjxOzZ6IZ8EZ6+qSC5/fGnkwtKKxt7iQjM/fTm59VuZGSQb/OgC1Eq2CqrBkNGxSAB4C7rVBt 7XpOSVWUrUSMWdjnkfUko6Lya6FysKIvma8XjIHGNLhaPmAXbb2mrVQPjV6+hWNt/wC+kWRaItvK6 49R2emFAY4N8f5NA3OaKWtocJ14AWHOiUTsoMVOHNr/UYSdYXE8+LwMlptCMIFz7yMtBlLwob3KNZ KwqtXZrhHODQIqZ/iQv0aA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1yHl-0006R5-75; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:48:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (lumarzeli30@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:291257 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. ]]] > Wouldn't it be better to support vertical text in Emacs, In a world in which we had an infinite supply of very good programmers working on Emacs, it would be better to support vertical text. But in the actual world, we need to ask whether it is worth the cost, and whether some other feature would be more worth while. -- 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)