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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:36:00 +0900 |
Dmitry Gutov writes:
> It would take quite a bit of conceit to assume that Emacs can make
> better choices WRT to docstring markup syntax than virtually every
> programming language and documentation format out there.
No, not at all. To assume that Emacs can consistently do so *by
design* would be conceited. To try new things, keep the ones that
work and abandon the others, is a strategy that is known to achieve
better choices in biology and business as well as in software.
> We're not even competing with other editors here.
Exactly. Emacs isn't competing. It's doing what's right for Emacs.
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/26
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/26
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/26
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/27
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/27
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/28
- 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., 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, 2015/06/24
- 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