2010/1/1 Stephen Bach <[email protected]>:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 07:29:57PM -0500, Jason Spiro wrote:
... (...) Emacs has a very slow development cycle and there are layers of bureaucracy and ego to trudge through, so I think it's unlikely vimpulse or viper-in-more-modes will ever be merged upstream. But I don't think (...)
IMHO Stephen has made an excellent point here. And I can understand the position of the Emacs team too: they have a "core" system, and they're trying to keep it as thin and simple as they can. Of course there's a lot of history, politics and... (folklore, maybe?) in the list of packages distributed with Emacs -- were not for that, I bet they'd already dumped off half of it. Don't you think there'd be more sense in promoting some kind of comprehensive, widely available repository of software for Emacs, like the Emacs Wiki? Cheers, -- José A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail.com "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals." (Quarry worker's creed)