Why isn't emacs installed by default
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 11:28:32 UTC 2007
Nicolas Mailhot writes:
>
> Le Lun 4 juin 2007 12:06, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >> You may think you're funny, but you have to realize that if
> >> emacs goes vi* is next. The desktop seems to be controlled by
> >> people with a windows envy.
> >
> > Indeed, but hopefully with the community involved and the tools in
> > place
> > (pungi) maybe it could be possible to do a spin for other userbases.
>
> emacs and vi upstreams have the choice to update their software if
> they want to keep it installed by default
>
> vi is mostly safe - it's small and has discovered gtk.
> emacs is going the way of the dodo because it targets 1995-ish
> desktops, and we've not been shipping those for quite a long time. At
> one point the hassle of catering for legacy needs outweights legacy
> software benefits for most users.
Can you please explain what you are talking about? By "targets
1995-ish desktops," do you mean that emacs lacks pop-up windows,
icons, menus, and so, on? Or something else you desire?
What do you mean by "update their software"? Do you mean "make it
more useful to developers"? Or something else?
Andrew.
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