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: Android port of Emacs Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:07:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <83edmask4z.fsf@gnu.org> <5c02371a-3c42-de66-70b7-4ed0d88cc3fa@gutov.dev> <834jn159vs.fsf@gnu.org> <831qi23bif.fsf@gnu.org> <87352gw9fq.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="5177"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 27 03:07:49 2023 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 1qDxBM-00016y-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2023 03:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qDxB2-0006wp-Mv; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qDxB0-0006wX-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qDxAz-0004k8-Uy; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:07:25 -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=LcG1IPodjFA1vvlfoc+A4Zk7es03KhCERwkBPF3ge00=; b=rWaaLeqWGhp1 ma0mObbyaBZ56D/H67ZModn5H6hW6GhTWkTJfH+fSVzK/Fuoz//LnH9i+DhBaTCmCGnOyhcU1aF07 AUCJA/rYUSe7+HkYHcsoPlROMO1xfiAC+EzIj2gn0FqK1iiIO6e2NUeSL8QrieDOTI83Kh1K4/YKf LoxSym7qB0tfY8r/KGorjl5g/A5WjX4uGPRFkCv3hVmn1dvZaWuqsRCb6XtFujkKVX5a2YCLoNdcq vFxdCKpB5Zv/N+z0GvHO5ozKlrz0Po8p9T0Q3iTzVj1eBCTDGfrRLb3kfKaZCe4oCMnFGf9Dqknih bYYWWhavnxTqxfYIAiUq8A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qDxAy-0000mH-UG; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:07:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87352gw9fq.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:40:57 +0800) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307246 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. ]]] > > Could development of the Android port include writing documentation > > of the same thoroughness and quality for that code? > The Android port already has a comparable amount of documentation, and > it's still being worked on. That is good. The question is, is it feasible to bring this to the same level of learnabiluty as the redisplay code? Including the knowledge about the interfaces it depends on? That would, according to Eli, solve the problem he is worried about. -- 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)