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: Issues with emacs (was Emacs users a dying breed?) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:00:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9ztndnj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340546499 21398 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2012 14:01:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:01:39 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eric Abrahamsen'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 16:01:38 2012 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 1SinNh-0006fk-2x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:01:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46999 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinNg-0000Fv-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinNb-0000Fq-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinNa-0003rh-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:26184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinNZ-0003rd-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q5OE1PEe020503 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:01:26 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5OE1Ovg012573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:01:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt117.oracle.com (abhmt117.oracle.com [141.146.116.69]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q5OE1NjT007572; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:01:23 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87a9ztndnj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Thread-Index: Ac1R/d9j0QvT3uawRHeEOei4GFfnoAAE7iDw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:85419 Archived-At: > One possibility: if a pure-Lisp implementation of Emacs became the > "main" implementation, I wonder if many Elisp-gurus who aren't > particularly enthusiastic about C programming would be encouraged to > expand their hacking into the Emacs basics. > > If the line between programming Emacs packages and programming Emacs > guts were blurred or erased altogether, I'll bet you'd get a lot more > people able and willing to contribute work on fundamentals like the > display engine or multi-threading. > > Just a thought, +1