Nicolas Mailhot writes: > > Le Lun 4 juin 2007 12:06, Patrice Dumas a écrit : > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > >> You may think you're funny, but you have to realize that if > >> emacs goes vi* is next. The desktop seems to be controlled by > >> people with a windows envy. > > > > Indeed, but hopefully with the community involved and the tools in > > place > > (pungi) maybe it could be possible to do a spin for other userbases. > > emacs and vi upstreams have the choice to update their software if > they want to keep it installed by default > > vi is mostly safe - it's small and has discovered gtk. > emacs is going the way of the dodo because it targets 1995-ish > desktops, and we've not been shipping those for quite a long time. At > one point the hassle of catering for legacy needs outweights legacy > software benefits for most users. Can you please explain what you are talking about? By "targets 1995-ish desktops," do you mean that emacs lacks pop-up windows, icons, menus, and so, on? Or something else you desire? What do you mean by "update their software"? Do you mean "make it more useful to developers"? Or something else? Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
