Re: with-editor seems like a bug fix

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:07:14 -0400
> 
> What with-editor does seems like a bug fix to me, not like a feature.
> It really ought to be standardly enabled in Emacs whenever the Emacs
> client is.

If someone can explain what is/are the bug(s) and show a recipe for
reproducing it/them, we will fix it, yes.

We had a long discussion of this back in Sep 2023, and the conclusion
was that some of what with-editor does could justify one or two
utility functions in Emacs, and the other parts are due to semi-broken
Emacs installations (which I'm not sure we want to support, but maybe
if someone describes the details, we'll decide to support some of
them).

> Is there any chance we can convince the author to sign papers,
> or perhaps have someone else write different code to do this job?

That's not the issue here.  The issue is to understand what are the
problems with-editor tries to solve, and then decide which ones of
them we want to solve in Emacs and how.  This was the conclusion from
that Sep 2023 discussion, at least from my POV.