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: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <481693C3.70901@emf.net> <4816CDB6.6000006@pajato.com> <4817D79F.8040508@gmail.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 1209593008 14919 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2008 22:03:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Eilert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 00:04:05 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 1JrKP4-00029L-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 00:03:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrKON-000851-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrKNB-0006l8-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrKN9-0006j2-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44981 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrKN9-0006iq-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrKN9-0003cJ-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JrKMp-0006cn-65; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:01:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <4817D79F.8040508@gmail.com> (message from Stephen Eilert on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:21:19 -0300) 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:96246 Archived-At: Before diving in the merits of whether or not it is possible to add multi-tasking to Emacs (by that I assume full-blown threads), what are the problems this is trying to solve? Multi-terminal use by more than one user needs parallelism in order to fully work right.