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From: Karl Chen <quarl@nospam.quarl.org>
Subject: Re: arguments hint
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:33:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <quack.20040603T0833.j5d64gpsg0@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1BVee0-0008Or-RI@fencepost.gnu.org

>>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
    rms> 
    rms>     Harmonia does this kind of cool language-aware stuff.
    rms> Is Harmonia a self-contained combination of many
    rms> different features?  (I don't know, I am guessing, so
    rms> please tell me if I'm wrong.)
    rms> 
    rms> Such packages are not a good way to add features to
    rms> Emacs, because in effect they make an alternate editor.
    rms> The right way to add multiple features is to add each
    rms> feature separately, making it fit in as much as possible
    rms> with all the rest of Emacs.  Then users can use them all,
    rms> or use just one of them.
    rms> 

I agree.  You should write them about improving Emacs itself
rather than creating an alternate editor.


-- 
Karl 2004-06-03 08:29

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200406010011.16822.pogonyshev@gmx.net>
2004-06-02  3:45 ` arguments hint Richard Stallman
2004-06-02  5:58   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02  6:30     ` Karl Chen
2004-06-02 13:42       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 22:55       ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-03 15:33         ` Karl Chen [this message]
2004-06-02 20:11     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-06-02 20:51       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 21:22         ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-06-04 13:33           ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-10-10  3:31             ` Stefan

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