"There is no reason why GNU would refuse to mainline such an enhancement if it had merits outside of the GCC dependency" Except everyone who knows RMS well eno

"There is no reason why GNU would refuse to mainline such an enhancement if it had merits outside of the GCC dependency" Except everyone who knows RMS well enough knows he'd be extremely obstructionist and indeed GNU would refuse to maintain/mainline such an GNU Emacs enhancement. That's one of the reasons I believe the GNU Emacs maintainer threatened to fork it, he obviously knows RMS well enough. (So do I in the 1979 to late '80s period, and he's not changed in this sort of thing. And he was reliably reported to be like this before I showed up on the scene, by among others one of the two initial ITS TECO EMACS beta-testers. And others I knew less well.)