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Yes, what really pisses me off about emacs is the mind-numbing arrogance - they're basically saying "people ought not to have broke from our button scheme, so w
by Qwertious 6y ago
Yes, what really pisses me off about emacs is the mind-numbing arrogance - they're basically saying "people ought not to have broke from our button scheme, so we'll just ignore it to our users' detriment!".
There's this implicit argument that convention is some sort of monarchist hierarchy where the successor mustbenamed as heir first, and what convention is most common is somehow irrelevant. It's infuriating.
- bananaface 6y agoEmacs has lasted 40 years with a stable (but small) market share. It's outlived every other editor with the exception of Vim. It will probably outlive Atom, and it looks like it's going to outlive Netbeans. I'd argue stubborn resistance to most new concepts regardless of their sheen is a contributor. I think people underrate that as a trait. You want some bastions. Loads of it is insane but they also don't make many new mistakes.
- msla 6y agoThat isn't Emacs, that's Stallman, who is known to be stubborn. It already caused a major fork, XEmacs, which used to be important, I suppose, but a combination of GNU Emacs catching up with the features XEmacs people wanted and XEmacs simply sputtering out has made GNU Emacs the last full Emacs standing again.
- rcdwealth 6y agoI don't think so. Emacs developers are quite friendly and accept opinions and advices of anybody, feel free to write to developers: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/