From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:32:41 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87tx1gv8s6.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <873891sgaw.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417372534 25068 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 18:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:35:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 19:35:25 2014 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 1Xv9LA-0001U7-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:35:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv9L9-00059v-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:35:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/I1jax5Lee3QERb8Er1a4ObpZ+M= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209043 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:101321 Archived-At: Nikolay Kudryavtsev writes: > I think Erik Naggum supported a fork of emacs back > in the day, because he hated MULE. > > And I'm not even mentioning xemacs, and other > emacsen. You actually did mention xemacs, either that or I'm hallucinating because of too much head trauma trying to think straight. C'mon. There is always an exception to a rule, and there is always an extreme example that makes all generalizing thoughts impossible. For example: all people are unique, but that doesn't stop us from having hospitals were practices are based on us being 99% the same. Here is a list of Linux distributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions Do you have anything near that for Emacs? In a way it makes sense for *Linux* to be "forked" because of different physical settings and hardware needs ("ported" is perhaps the word then). But all those distros, over and over? Oh, no. There is no doubt in my mind Emacs has been tinkered with just as much but only minimally forked. Forking is the poor-man's "configuration and extention", as they call it on the covers of Emacs books. -- underground experts united