Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 19:29, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> So now it seems that this thread has been diverted to a discussion about 
> merging
> Lennart's emacsclient changes, who should do that, why...  Next you'll be
> discussing each of those changes individually.  Then...
>
> Why is it so difficult to _start a new thread_ when you change the subject?
>
> Here, FWIW, was the place where you turned off the road:
>
>>> And the reason for it is IMO
>>> partly that emacs client does not start Emacs by default. (It does in
>>> the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 however.)
>>
>> You could send patches for the standard Emacs...
>> Hey! Didn't we have this conversation (a few times) before? :-)
>
> Some discussion of emacsclient problems and improvements _might_ be 
> appropriate
> for this thread, provided it remains tied to a discussion about attracting 
> more
> users.
>
> But when you take a detour to pursue emacsclient implementation and merge
> details, you've left the road, probably forever.  At best, you're on a side
> road.  At worst, you're off into the swamp.
>
>



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    Juanma