--On Saturday, August 3, 2019 16:18 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 8/3/2019 4:10 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> i think that wg charters should mandate emacs. :) >> >> we have a variety of tools, a variety of people, and a >> variety of needs. there are no perfect tools, perfect people >> (present company excepted, of course), and unsophisticated >> needs do not match our unbounded desire for corner cases. >> >> we have a work-product funnel with a fairly wide mouth and a >> well- defined end. this is a feature, not a bug. >> >> i use nekked git, gogs, github, and still a remnant of RCS >> <blush>. i use emacs and xml2rfc. i do not feel a need to >> tell you what [not] to use; and will not take seriously your >> telling me what [not] to use. it's hard enough to get >> substantive work done without being over-processed and/or >> micromanaged. >> >> i recently co-authored a draft where a major contributor >> still uses nroff. i focussed on the content, and only >> snarked once. >> >> and i deeply appreciate the tool-makers who have given us a >> fairly rich variety from which to choose. and i am in awe of >> the makers and fellow users who help when i do a st00pid or >> hit a bug. thank you. >> >> randy >> >> > > Well said. > Joel Indeed. Excellent discussion and summary. john
