Re: Brand new clojure support in Emacs ;-)

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 1:02 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:53:11 -0400
> >
> > > No one who speaks for the project suggested anything like that.  It's
> > > a non-issue.
> > >
> > So, does RMS not speak for the project?
>
> Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't.  Like all of us: sometimes we
> just express a non-obligatory opinions, sometimes we describe a
> decision made for the project as a whole.  There's no one answer; you
> need to read the fine print.
>
> > Am I misreading his message:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-08/msg01063.html ?
>
> If you think he was saying we will necessarily call our mode
> clojure-mode, then yes, I believe you are misreading it.  From where I
> stand, Richard was describing a way to avoid a name conflict.

I was rebutting the phrase "suggested anything like that" above.  I
did not imply that RMS had directed a conclusion, but your original
claim is a very strong one.  If you had said "No one has suggested
that while speaking for the project", maybe that would be accurate.
But it seemed to me RMS was suggesting a broader principle of not
allowing external projects to dictate decisions in GNU projects, so
I'm not really clear that he wasn't speaking for GNU Emacs as part of
that.

Lynn