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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:24:27 +0200 |
> From: Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:10:29 +0100
>
> On Sat, Mar 01 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > IMNSHO, it is bad design to ask users to install a particular
> > compiler, be it GCC or clang, just to be able to have decent editing
> > capabilities for a program source. What next? shall we require
> > LibreOffice to be able to edit text files conveniently?
>
> Emacs already uses ?spell for spell checking, GPG for signatures, and
> probably many more tools I'm not aware of. I also think it's safe to
> assume that if someone needs a decent editing capabilities for a program
> source, she has tools that are able to compile that program source
> already installed.
You are misreading what I wrote, see above. I said it was
unreasonable to ask users to install some _particular_ compiler, not
_a_ compiler.
That would be similar to only support in ispell.el one particular
speller and not the rest.
> (I'm not saying that requiring a compiler for completion is the only
> possible option, by the way. I just wanna say, that not everything has
> to be implemented in Emacs Lisp and for one, I hope no one will try to
> reimplement GPG in Emacs Lisp).
Strawman. No one suggested to "implement everything in Emacs Lisp".
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, (continued)
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Richard Stallman, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/03/02
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/02
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Michal Nazarewicz, 2014/03/27
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/03/01
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/03/01
Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2014/03/01