From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d37ab8-c1f7-4d87-b791-4177928fea8f@default> References: <6a370ecf-5ddc-4e5b-8553-189949a495fe@googlegroups.com> <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381612499 6699 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 21:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:14:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Kai Grossjohann , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 23:15:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6Wc-0003vc-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6Wb-0006d1-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6WJ-0006a1-Kr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6W7-00050w-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV6W7-00050m-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:14:31 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r9CLESTV003218 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:14:29 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9CLERDn009890 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:14:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9CLERS9000450; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:14:27 GMT In-Reply-To: <7557ed60-66e4-4ab2-9cd6-9b1b2d934ae1@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93969 Archived-At: > > > > trust Emacs to be active and improving by 2018? > > > > > Emacs was written in 1985, so it will be 30 years old soon. I > > > think it can go on another 30 years :-) > > > > It's really more like 40 years that people have been using Emacs. > > GNU Emacs will be 30 in two more years (soon, but not that soon). >=20 > Yes, yes. Not good. I was thinking of GNU Emacs but didn't say it. No, no. Good! Your point was that Emacs has been around a long time and will likely be around for a long time to come. Thank you for saying it, Kai. What I wrote just nitpicked to add a few details.