From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as WM Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408124907 18642 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2014 17:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, maplant2@illinois.edu To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 19:48:19 2014 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 1XILbv-0003ax-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:48:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XILbv-0001yP-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XILbr-0001y1-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XILbr-0005A6-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XILbq-0005A0-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XILbq-0008BY-4T; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:48:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:59:51 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:173691 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] But FWIW I don't see the benefit of having it included in Emacs: You're thinking of it in temrs of convenience for Emacs users. I'm think of it as a base for attacking Google Drive. Google Drive's use has not been marginal, sad to say. Let's see what we can do to compete with it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.