Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs"

[Thomas Lord]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     Before diving in the merits of whether or not it is possible to add 
>     multi-tasking to Emacs (by that I assume full-blown threads), what are 
>     the problems this is trying to solve?
>
> Multi-terminal use by more than one user
> needs parallelism in order to fully work right.
>
>
>   


That's brilliant.

As GNU Emacs turns attention to competing more strongly as an IDE, one 
application for that kind of multi-threadedness is (of course) "pair 
programming".   There are many other, perhaps more compelling, examples 
of the value of multi-user sessions -- but that is one that will be 
familiar to many, I think.

-t