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Re: Issues with emacs


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Issues with emacs
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:57:59 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin)

>>>>> notbob  <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> Does emacs REALLY need MORE features!?  It's already so complex, now, as to
> seem almost unfathomable to many.  What emacs needs is some refining,
> perhaps even some simplification.

Bear in mind that Emacs is layered, with much of that layering in Lisp and
completely optional.

If you built and ran only "temacs" (which gets built when you "make" in the
Emacs build tree), I think that would satisfy every desire you ever had for
Emacs to be simple -- to a fault.

John


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