From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380923994 30725 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2013 21:59:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs , Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Wanessa_Sim=E3o_Barbosa?= To: Luca Ferrari Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 04 23:59:56 2013 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 1VSDPg-0004je-AM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:59:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSDPf-0007jw-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSDPR-0007jp-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSDPM-0006AQ-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:52823 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSDPM-0006AD-OD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id A0654228B8; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:59:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4D5228B4; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:59:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 69.60.117.94 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:93846 Archived-At: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > wrote: > > > Can I reasonably trust Emacs > > to be active and improving by 2018? > > I don't even trust myself having a job in 2018! > Quite frankly, I'm fine in being even the only one using a tool, if > such tool simplifies my work. And this is true for Emacs, at least for > my job, therefore I'm fine with it even if trends' > will say nobody else is appreciating Emacs. > By the way, I don't see the problem here: have you ever changed a car, > a phone, a television or something else? Changes happen, and in the > unlucky case Emacs will not be supported (to the extent you care), you > will simply change tool. > Don't pretend to use a single tool for any job, use the right one. > And today Emacs is pretty much good for a lot of job, but it does not > mean it will be the only one or the better one forever. > > Luca > Probably emacs is the only text editor on the internet with its own podcast (emacs rocks). > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude Avoid the Gates Of Hell, use Linux!