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Again, you wave your hands as if such a transpiler falls within a man-year of effort when there is little expertise, much less funding, for work that is not onl
by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Again, you wave your hands as if such a transpiler falls within a man-year of
effort when there is little expertise, much less funding, for work that is not
only difficult to get right but also not guaranteed to achieve the desired
effect of broader adoption.
- todd8 5y agoSo true! The dream of adding support for an additional extension language doesn’t fix the UI, the archaic defaults, unusual terminology, licensing restrictions, key bindings from keyboards used half a century ago. It’s all very sad. The worlds best editor, one of my favorite tools, is now too big to renovate. I used to toy with the idea of “fixing” TeX because I really liked using it, but again the fundamental problem that I wanted fixed was the extension language. I wanted something better than layers of macros on top of macros. Maybe I should stop musing about fundamentally transforming Emacs and go back to daydreaming of an improved TeX.