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Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:55:41 -0400

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  > More importantly, a single Emacs will force identical configuration on
  > all collaborating users. And, instead of collaborating, they will
  > curse and bicker over every small convenience each of them has become
  > used to.

If they use one single Emacs, that will happen.

  > > Or perhaps one Emacs could be the "server", and the others act as clients,
  > > maintaining mirrors of the document.

  > However, it then follows that each instance is going to have its own
  > supporting tools. So, a power user who has an elaborate setup with
  > LSP, flycheck, whatever, will not be able to share the advantages of
  > his setup with a newbie.

If each has per own Emacs, that will happen.

To avoid both of those problems, we need some other way,
but what could it be?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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