From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:06:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1C2Gm3-0007hg-Qd@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24qmk8erv.fsf@Majnun.local> (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:03:32 -0700)
> In that case, why isn't \ the default for this variable?
Because this would conflict with Windows, where "\vi" means to run the
vi.exe that exists in the root directory.
The idea that an Emacs feature should be designed to avoid "conflict
with Windows" gives Windows more importance than it deserves.
GNU Emacs is a part of the GNU system and its main purpose is to make
the GNU system better. It is ok for GNU packages to support non-free
systems as well, as long as they don't get in the way of the main
purpose.
If we start rejecting decisions that make sense on GNU/Linux because
they "conflict" with Windows, Windows is getting in the way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 3:31 small Eshell docfix Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 7:58 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-30 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-30 13:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-30 18:28 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 22:03 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-31 22:06 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-09-01 5:45 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-09-02 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 19:43 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-08-31 22:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-31 23:19 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-01 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 20:23 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-01 23:14 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-02 11:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-02 19:47 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-06 6:47 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-06 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 16:29 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-07 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 22:41 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-08 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07 23:28 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-07 23:45 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-08 5:12 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-03 17:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-04 20:06 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-05 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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