From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83sh9es8jw.fsf@gnu.org> <2cdaa88f-f31e-e05c-a940-d83e25c9c167@dancol.org> <919bf465a7eecad7669fa29762f5770b.squirrel@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520370439 13437 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 21:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, raeburn@raeburn.org, eliz@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com To: dancol@dancol.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 22:07:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etJnZ-0001cf-R6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:07:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJpc-0000H2-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJbk-0005ki-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJbj-00018U-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJbZ-00011M-1p; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJbY-0002eR-J4; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <919bf465a7eecad7669fa29762f5770b.squirrel@dancol.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223377 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. ]]] > You are advocating for your suggested improvements. I am advocating for > mine. Emacs is not an independent project, and it isn't governed by its contributors. I'm the head of the GNU Project, and that includes Emacs. You, as a contributor, can advocate a certain decision, which means you present arguments why I should approve it. I don't need to advocate a decision in that sense. I leave most technical decisions up to the contributors, including you, because for most of the questions I don't have any special preference of my own. For those questions, I'm happy with whatever works, and I know the contributors can figure out what works. However, making progress on Emacs as a word processor is one of my specific goals. This is what Emacs needs to do to be useful in all the ways it should be useful. It will only take a few more features to make Emacs start to be useful as a word processor. Once we can do proper formatting of paragraphs with variable-width text, with a few kinds of alignment, and we can save these in files, we will be able to use it for writing letters and handouts, instead of LibreOffice. I am really looking forward to this. LibreOffice is free software, and it's ethical, but it isn't Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.