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Re: What improvements would be truly useful?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: What improvements would be truly useful? |
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Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:54:36 -0500 |
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> You are advocating for your suggested improvements. I am advocating for
> mine.
Emacs is not an independent project, and it isn't governed by its
contributors. I'm the head of the GNU Project, and that includes
Emacs.
You, as a contributor, can advocate a certain decision, which means
you present arguments why I should approve it. I don't need to
advocate a decision in that sense.
I leave most technical decisions up to the contributors, including
you, because for most of the questions I don't have any special
preference of my own. For those questions, I'm happy with whatever
works, and I know the contributors can figure out what works.
However, making progress on Emacs as a word processor is one of my
specific goals. This is what Emacs needs to do to be useful in all
the ways it should be useful.
It will only take a few more features to make Emacs start to be useful
as a word processor. Once we can do proper formatting of paragraphs
with variable-width text, with a few kinds of alignment, and we can
save these in files, we will be able to use it for writing letters and
handouts, instead of LibreOffice.
I am really looking forward to this. LibreOffice is free software,
and it's ethical, but it isn't Emacs.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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- What improvements would be truly useful?, (continued)
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- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Daniel Colascione, 2018/03/05
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/05
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Richard Stallman, 2018/03/05
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, dancol, 2018/03/05
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- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/03/07
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Jefferson Carpenter, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Yuri Khan, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Richard Stallman, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Stefan Monnier, 2018/03/08
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Richard Stallman, 2018/03/09
- Re: What improvements would be truly useful?, Karl Fogel, 2018/03/09