From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 17:48:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="98181"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 19:49:12 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 1jYvVI-000PSf-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 19:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37406 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYvVH-0007GI-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYvUc-0006Qt-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40130.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.130]:11057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYvUa-0003dU-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:48:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1589392104; bh=bXgy+B6MdVTjtNzqFxlIYoNiRY0mbuaUFUl5A99HZCU=; h=Date:To:From:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=mxeGwnfvSJ1XeLtRlolZd31RTxMIBI51Sdh03s9/ngTrX8j2JY5QsMWzkcCrckXx8 SJN/g80Sk4p0XueEY58aEElq9t7BWZGS/48aFn/BdK71pHJwCrSpy7FDtd0OV0Okrk OMHES4mLEkxn0kslX6rUQFimFNBzBWPEcHL3MDJU= In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.130; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40130.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/13 13:48:24 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action 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:250155 Archived-At: > what are those other features which could bring much more tangible benefi= ts for the user BTW, somebody on Reddit said "I would easily pay $10 a year to have someone= dedicated to work on Emacs. Many of us have employers that I guess would b= e willing to pay a dime as well." and others agreed. Emacs Reddit has 40k members and it may be goal with which many of its memb= ers can sympahtize. Do you think it could help Emacs if it had someone working on it full time,= checking bug reports, taking care of all the usual things, fixing bugs, et= c. thereby lightening the load on maintainers and core developers, so they = have more time for developing features?