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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:28:44 +0900 |
Dmitry Gutov writes:
> On 06/24/2015 09:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > I think Richard will tell you differently, that "competition" with
> > other editors, languages, or formats is never a reason for Emacs to do
> > something. Cooperation (portability or compatibility) often is,
> > though. But you'll have to ask him to get an authoritative statement.
>
> Again, you're holding on to the wrong word.
Then don't use it. That's you talking past me, not the other way
around.
> Point is, we're trying to solve a minor problem that others have
> solved before.
Then post a pointer to those solutions or discussions. You can't
assume your readers are so familiar with them that the word
"competition" will cause useful associations.
But AFAIK, no, this is not a problem that others have solved. I've
seen the generic "shall we use Unicode characters as syntax" discussed
a few times, and to date the conclusion has always been "we can't
count on Unicode to be available, so we can't." That's not a
solution, that's postponement. And Emacs doesn't have that problem,
although apparently some platforms supported by Emacs do (specificly,
the Windows command line).
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nicolas Petton, 2015/06/17
- RE: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Drew Adams, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/17