From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <481693C3.70901@emf.net> <4816CDB6.6000006@pajato.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209511102 17066 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2008 23:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 01:18:57 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jqz66-0006f6-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jqz5P-0002TU-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jqz4h-0002Ez-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jqz4f-0002EV-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59639 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jqz4f-0002EP-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jqz4f-0007U0-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jqz4N-0001Aj-Hn; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:17:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <4816CDB6.6000006@pajato.com> (message from Paul Michael Reilly on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:26:46 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96177 Archived-At: The other hard problem is multi-tasking in the Emacs Lisp engine. RMS once left me with the impression that this was virtually intractable, especially if one wanted to have existing Elisp code base compatibility, a reasonable thing to want. I think "intractable" might be too pessimistic. It is certainly a lot of work, but someone could give it a try.