From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Android port of Emacs Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:47:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <83edmask4z.fsf@gnu.org> <5c02371a-3c42-de66-70b7-4ed0d88cc3fa@gutov.dev> <834jn159vs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2601"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 23 03:48:00 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qCVu4-0000Su-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qCVtM-00052z-VZ; Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qCVtL-00050u-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qCVtL-0001mA-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:47:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=4m6XwM2xhX+VkSkttC74qgnBXq0xLUI6eWD/s04cxFI=; b=n2MaxT0sfxAd zacgoibBU1KgbfjUNjgpIyfZgcnLRaKQz0jOYVNfLPHSoxYubeFnJzPxknfHPc3Ujio9Ux+UhctSl yFzLoFcU49+IuXpp3CU4TYFF76Jg63Zpe2rqeVnKHgRxKDA4Vnk5IgREnqZQFIL/IOV456Cc2rlTY NRg9mJlKccXFniwjhaYl3BT1DXM2Czs8Bt2tOo2mAzmSmvwd5zImKSt9Q5DDFuRT6Ep+ygudp0yun DTt9UXFL+8z2pgKWg0C8i7RVZ9zCapUWEe+Tummh2VPZtFUc8uOYtGGRvw+4pqm+jrYu4arCcIbue nBq+TFwMKKJeLDUBmEYigw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qCVtK-0004Q5-MZ; Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:47:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <834jn159vs.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:32:07 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307138 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. ]]] > This side-steps the issue which actually prompted me to start this > thread of discussion. The issue that bothered me is why should we > commit ourselves to including a significant feature which complicates > Emacs, if it might soon enough become unmaintained (due to several of > its aspects I described). I think that is a valid concern. But if Po Lu says that he wants to keeo working on it and make it good enough to achieve popularity, I suggest that makes the effort of installing it a good investment. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)