From: PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com>
Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:55:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <opsnwb2h1mp52o26@home-ca12fabbc0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5vf7n8sk7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:16:24 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:22:49 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The question is: is more people using Emacs a good thing at all?
>>>> Or is it only an additional burden (more clueless people on the
>>>> help forums, etc.)?
>>>
>>> You are trying to frame loaded questions.
>>
>> No, it was a sincere question. And if the answer is no, it's not a
>> good thing then I'm okay with it.
>>
>>> What is "a good thing"?
>>> More people using Emacs is not a worthwhile objective per se. If it
>>> were, we should replace Emacs by toiletpaper, and its user base would
>>> explode. A worthwhile objective for a developer is to have Emacs
>>> become a more productive tool for his work. This is not unrelated to
>>> the size of its user base, since developers usually tend to start out
>>> as users.
>>
>> Exactly. I don't know what resources are at the emacs developers'
>> disposal (do they work on it on their free time? is some of them
>> paid to work on Emacs?),
>
> Most work on Emacs in their free time. There have been times in the
> past where a main developer got employed by the FSF for completing a
> particular essential task or feature.
>
>> but if companies see more value in emacs then they might even
>> sponsor developing some new features for them.
>
> Emacs has a rather strict copyright assignment policy to the FSF, and
> it has a rather strict "if RMS does not think it a good idea right
> now, it does not get in" policy. While there have been corporate or
> at least institutional contributions (in particular MULE comes to
> mind), this is by no means easy to do.
[...]
> Emacs has not shown itself to accommodate systematic corporate
> involvement well. It will as far as I can see always be dependent on
> dedicated individuals instead of corporate support, simply because you
> can't make a business plan involving Emacs development and timelines.
I see. In that case there really is no obvious benefit of devoting
resources to make Emacs more newbie friendly.
BTW, it seems Eclipse will fill this space instead of Emacs. It is
universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing
in particular.
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2005-03-18 21:12 Making Emacs more newbie friendly PT
2005-03-18 21:57 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-19 5:40 ` PT
2005-03-19 7:57 ` rgb
2005-03-19 9:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 10:46 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-03-19 11:01 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 0:42 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-03-19 20:16 ` Miles Bader
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2005-03-19 20:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-03-19 14:23 ` PT
2005-03-19 15:08 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 14:34 ` nfreimann
2005-03-19 15:49 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2005-03-19 16:13 ` nfreimann
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2005-03-19 19:12 ` Shawn Betts
2005-03-19 19:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 21:00 ` Miles Bader
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2005-03-19 22:42 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 12:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-19 14:56 ` PT
2005-03-19 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 17:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-19 18:07 ` PT
2005-03-19 18:15 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 18:24 ` PT
2005-03-19 18:34 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-09 18:01 ` Nathan Hess
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2005-03-19 13:41 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-19 14:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 16:04 ` Lee Sau Dan
2005-03-20 12:33 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-20 17:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 7:39 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-21 10:07 ` Joe Corneli
2005-03-21 11:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-22 11:25 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-21 11:54 ` Klaus Straubinger
2005-03-21 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 12:27 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-20 12:47 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-21 18:30 ` Drew Adams
2005-03-19 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-20 12:42 ` Brian Elmegaard
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2005-03-20 12:39 ` Brian Elmegaard
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2005-03-20 21:05 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 8:11 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-21 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-03-22 11:33 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-19 14:52 ` PT
2005-03-19 15:14 ` David Hansen
2005-03-19 15:33 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 16:00 ` PT
2005-03-19 16:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 16:57 ` PT
2005-03-19 17:16 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 17:55 ` PT [this message]
2005-03-19 18:03 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 12:52 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-20 17:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 21:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-22 11:46 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-22 13:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-23 7:29 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-21 8:17 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-19 18:01 ` PT
2005-03-19 20:45 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-20 17:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-19 18:05 ` Shawn Betts
2005-03-19 18:15 ` PT
2005-03-20 17:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-19 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 23:16 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-20 11:49 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-03-20 13:06 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2005-03-19 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 18:16 ` Shawn Betts
2005-03-19 23:34 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-20 0:45 ` David Kastrup
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2005-03-20 11:51 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-03-20 16:31 ` ken
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2005-03-20 23:35 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2005-03-21 4:44 ` Sean Richards
2005-03-21 11:00 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2005-03-22 20:33 ` Sean Richards
2005-03-19 15:45 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-19 15:54 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2005-03-19 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-03-19 23:33 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-03-20 4:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-20 9:07 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2005-03-20 11:30 ` nfreimann
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2005-03-20 20:33 ` Jochen Küpper
2005-03-20 23:50 ` Joe Corneli
2005-03-20 12:59 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-20 17:45 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 8:19 ` Brian Elmegaard
2005-03-19 18:42 ` Shawn Betts
2005-03-19 19:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 6:55 ` Joe Corneli
2005-03-18 22:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-03-19 17:17 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-19 18:10 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2005-03-22 1:59 ` Cristian Gutierrez
2005-03-21 9:56 ` Mathias Dahl
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