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: Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7D0B397D-5D1B-4B8C-93B6-1CA207DD552A@scratch.space> <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527045751 21621 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 03:22:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 03:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Van L Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 05:22:26 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 1fLKM6-0005XL-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 05:22:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKOD-0003Iy-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKNq-00032u-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKNp-0002Az-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKNm-00028m-54; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKNj-0006iA-OQ; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:24:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> (message from Van L on Tue, 22 May 2018 16:58:32 +1000) 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:225586 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. ]]] > If a voice-recognition module is workable and Emacs has the skill > to compose raw regexps from less terse human friendly natural > language statements, with marks and point at data, would it be > easy to marry the two? We don't have adequate free software for voice recognition, as far as I know, and we should not add Emacs support for any such nonfree program. Compiling a clearer syntax into regexps is feasible. We have such things but we haven't adopted any of them in Emacs itself. Perhaps they are not really convenient. It would be good to figure out why not, and make one that is convenient to use, and then use it. Perhaps the inconvenience has to do with combining the complex parts of the regexp with the simple strings to match. Is that so? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)