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One of the reasons I chose GNU Emacs over XEmacs was a feeling that GNU Emacs will be maintained, even advanced, for as long as RMS has the strength to type. I
by dded 13y ago
One of the reasons I chose GNU Emacs over XEmacs was a feeling that GNU Emacs will be maintained, even advanced, for as long as RMS has the strength to type. It's his baby.
(There were other reasons, the big one being momentum. XEmacs didn't run on the platform I was on for a long time, so it would have been a switch.)
- aaronem 13y agoAn excellent point; for example, although I don't have any reason to think RMS himself did this, Emacs 24.4 will have file change notification support across all platforms where it compiles and where such notifications are available. I grant that's a somewhat overdue feature for Emacs to have (e.g., I've wanted it ever since I set up Dropbox to synchronize my org-mode files across all my boxes), but it's definitely evidence that Emacs isn't lacking of maintenance and improvement. I wonder: If Emacs rarely gains new features in core, is it because there aren't enough developers doing enough to improve it, or rather because people are having a hard time thinking up new features to add which Emacs doesn't already have?
- agumonkey 13y agoLisp systems legacy I suppose, the core is ~tiny, everything else is a library.
- aaronem 13y agoSorry, I was unclear; by "core" I mean "the Emacs distribution itself", as opposed to libraries you find on Github, EmacsWiki, or wherever else that isn't part of the standard Lisp library you get when you download the Emacs tarball.
- SimHacker 13y agoRMS has RSI, so he doesn't type, he dictates. Oh, shit -- that didn't come out the way I meant it to. ;(
- kro0ub 13y agoI wonder what software package he uses.