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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-messag
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message, |
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Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:35:40 +0300 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden,
> address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:24:04 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > [Even without Lisp applications, Emacs] is still a useful text
> > editor. With Git, unless you know how to resolve pull/push
> > conflicts, you cannot do the simplest thing. And that's the
> > difference; I don't understand how you can deny it.
>
> The only way I can make sense of that comment is that your definition
> of "simple" is the activity of highest complexity known to man:
> working in large distributed teams, which is the situation that
> induces pull/push conflicts.
IOW, working in any public project these days. We violently agree.
> The simplest thing is to use Git like RCS: git commit, git diff,
> lather, rinse, repeat.
That'd be a step backward: Emacs switched from RCS to CVS about 25
years ago.
> Even Richard and Alan do that without getting
> their shorts in a knot. But their workflows are very workspace-and-
> mainline-centric; they don't see a need for dealing with branches, let
> alone the DAG. They don't want to go beyond the RCS workflow. DVCS
> fans do; branches and DAG manipulations are useful tools for many
> development activities and workflows, which Richard and Alan evidently
> perform rarely if ever. Unfortunately for them most of the developing
> world has decided that DVCS and DAGs are good things, and they're
> finding themselves more and more isolated, even within the Emacs
> community.
All true and agreed. I just tried to show how the resulting
requirements might get in the way of some people. I think we should
understand their POV, rather than blame them for it and despise it.
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Richard Stallman, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/08
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Richard Stallman, 2015/04/08
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/08
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/04/09
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Richard Stallman, 2015/04/11
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/04/12
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/04/13
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/04/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,, João Távora, 2015/04/14