From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chiron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:46:07 GMT Organization: TeraNews.com Message-ID: References: <1bqkr.13803$mL3.9455@newsfe23.iad> <5Yxkr.15011$bU5.6213@newsfe04.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335019818 11865 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 14:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:50:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 16:50:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SLbdf-0002Z0-M8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLbdf-0002aS-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:50:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe15.iad.POSTED!7ed62f90!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:46:07 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 2291 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192145 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84561 Archived-At: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:10:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Chiron Date: Sat, >> 21 Apr 2012 12:43:45 GMT >> >> In what way do the maintainers of emacs benefit from having more users? > > If you ever maintained a package that others used, you must know that > satisfying your users is a very powerful incentive. Frankly, I'm > surprised to see this question asked at all. Well, I'm just going by the behavior of the current maintainers. They aren't making the changes that people seem to want - at least not the ones that might gather lots of users. So apparently these guys aren't all that concerned about who's using their product, or at least not how many people are using it. Otherwise, I'd expect that they'd do things to attract more users. Satisfying users may be a powerful incentive, but it certainly is not the only one. Apparently, it is not the one that motivates the current maintainers. And this is why I suggested that those who want changes to emacs consider creating a fork. If they don't do that, they're going to just have to take emacs as it is - or go to another editor. -- A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about yourself.