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From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: dog-wagging systems
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:56:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO2hHWbi0BOnCRMZMJ1vpUE+aSyFvpO-cB0E=fRtriEqNQSNUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ikx9jrh4.fsf@gnu.org>


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On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Let's focus on selecting multiple files via completion.
>
> How did "completion" enter the picture?
>

Catching up on this conversation, it strikes me that emacs seems especially
prone to creating Borg-like systems that start focused, gain adherents,
then expand to include all nearby territory, especially UI territory. I'm
thinking of gnus, company/ivy/helm, and org (as well as some MIT-specific
systems from my youth); I'm sure there are more.

Is this just another corollary of Greenspun's Tenth?

~Chad

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