From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:36:00 +0900 Message-ID: <87h9pyxwrj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <87r3p9fxm2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2v0fiji.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150619090225.GA2743@acm.fritz.box> <87fv5kfrfa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83twtzhi9g.fsf@gnu.org> <877fqvfvby.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fv5jh8ls.fsf@gnu.org> <874mlzf71d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435073799 23979 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2015 15:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 23 17:36:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Z7QFQ-0002fq-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QFP-0000ds-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QF8-0000Zi-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QF3-0006ih-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:57893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QF2-0006gb-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 677821C3938; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:36:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 424421A2CA2; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:36:00 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" ffb5abc8dc4e XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187420 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > It would take quite a bit of conceit to assume that Emacs can make > better choices WRT to docstring markup syntax than virtually every > programming language and documentation format out there. No, not at all. To assume that Emacs can consistently do so *by design* would be conceited. To try new things, keep the ones that work and abandon the others, is a strategy that is known to achieve better choices in biology and business as well as in software. > We're not even competing with other editors here. Exactly. Emacs isn't competing. It's doing what's right for Emacs.