From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indentation with spaces Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:26:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83v8t7y59p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fskezg7s.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87zgimm0f8.fsf@yahoo.com> <87edzwlt69.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87zgiklpid.fsf@yahoo.com> <874k0skoey.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o7z0j8xf.fsf@yahoo.com> <834k0rzm3j.fsf@gnu.org> <87h74rsky6.fsf@dataswamp.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27761"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 11 10:29:38 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1nzwUz-000717-So for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:29:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55678 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwUy-0003zU-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwSV-0003zB-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwSU-0005be-Pk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:27:02 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=g0BgZu5kgiqwH4fg5TVW4IGnCk6Ldri9y9dqnR2Y0Wk=; b=cjzOLb8dRGbJ 3i574MSaQJyeaWhNxb9SwDtalorE0RNr6vYaS31odOHg+WHq6lQASo+EnFMg0oZkLYeEsxyRLzxJ5 +GyL11yGTdNY0gbkfPQfKDd7MYTR4ht3Vak+n4R3TZOwW6zNM9XFV0oBtTOBqP/oReTLAK9+Ojz6n LwL1Koj1ttWCE99hAZ8mgfB1lHcAushfsd/GiYMWNVnWjUZ4OR3E3hrB69+x7wxd8hASvkeW679c7 WP1dl1QQqQrSf8MQmNGoybdKgu2EmtEFhu2+5Jl/m/MlsYaIkJ/Kic1xJVan3tBFLZ5EmE0Ul6070 M+2CuhY6+3tGL5xVQtpg9A==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1915 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwST-0000pR-WA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:27:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h74rsky6.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 11 Jun 2022 09:44:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137677 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 09:44:49 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> I am aware than emacs had dabbled on proportional fonts but > >> not for programming though. > > > > Emacs has done nothing of the sorts, please stop the > > insinuations. This is being worked on as Emacs development > > progresses, and is already better in latest Emacs versions. > > Why is Emacs always falling behind? Is it something internal > or should one put all the blame one the developers? First, I don't think "always" is correct, let alone accurate. Where we do fall behind in significant ways its IMO due to lack of resources and the fact that the Emacs development is not really "governed", at least not when major development directions are considered. Developers basically do what they like.