From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, p.stephani2@gmail.com, yyoncho@gmail.com,
alexanderm@web.de, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Questions about throw-on-input
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:21:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jZQuf-0000Ke-Bf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4506133a-5e63-4ae7-9b5d-830359e8b673@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 14 May 2020 09:56:13 -0700 (PDT))
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An editor buffer is global mutable state. Global mutable state is at
the heart of GNU Emacs, and I disagree with the idea that we should
try to get away from it. That is a non-goal.
Even if someone showed me that there is no significant inconvenience
in writing a text editor without global mutable state -- which I am
skeptical of -- I would be against putting effort into changing the
internal design of Emacs for goals that are internal. We should
put our effort into features that provide benefits to users.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 13:47 Questions about throw-on-input Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 17:39 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 19:48 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-11 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 22:33 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 18:47 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-14 8:32 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 14:37 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-14 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-15 3:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-15 3:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 8:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 16:46 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-15 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 17:50 ` yyoncho
2020-05-15 18:44 ` Alexander Miller
2020-05-15 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 19:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-05-15 18:00 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-15 17:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-15 19:47 ` chad
2020-05-16 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 2:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-12 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-09 13:09 Alexander Miller
2020-05-10 11:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 7:31 Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 14:28 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-07 21:11 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 4:36 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 4:43 ` yyoncho
2020-05-12 4:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:23 ` Ivan Yonchovski
2020-05-08 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 11:55 ` yyoncho
2020-05-08 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 18:04 ` yyoncho
2020-05-07 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 15:36 ` Ivan Yonchovski
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