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Emacs does need the full AST. The whole point of Emacs is to allow users to write applications that were UNANTICIPATED by its developers. You can't predict exac
by tree_of_item 12y ago
Emacs does need the full AST. The whole point of Emacs is to allow users to write applications that were UNANTICIPATED by its developers. You can't predict exactly what sort of information users will need, so you can't make some "safe" amount of information available.
It's mind boggling that this even needs to be explained. I get the sense that rms doesn't really grok the Emacs philosophy anymore.
- hga 12y agoUrk! You might well be right, I've been assuming he doesn't grok C++, which he doesn't use. This would be terrible, for as far as I'm concerned, his single greatest contribution to computing is the EMACS philosophy that he developed out of a primitive set of TECO macros. (I believe everything else would have happened more or less, e.g. without Linux, BSD would be ruling now after a 2 year pause for that AT&T lawsuit.)