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RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer
sigzero writes "Short but sweet: RMS is stepping down as Emacs Maintainer: 'From: Richard Stallman, Subject: Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team, Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:22 -0500 Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them."
Maybe he switched to vim.
no, wait....
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
I thought emacs had become self-aware by now...
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
You could've predicted this using C-x M-c M-Butterfly while editing emacs code inside emacs...
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A bit like Castro leaving power.
Since I actually had to google "RMS" does it mean I must delete my /. account?
Yes, it's true that RMS will no longer the main Emacs maintainer, but the truth is he will still be very close to the project. RMS is merely shifting to a subset; he has dedicated himself to filling a gap that has been missing in the Emacs operating system for a long time; the lack of a robust, powerful, yet easy-to-use editor.
...you stole the thunder from Bill gates! He was gonna step down soon and now you ruined it!
For example, to make picture-mode work for photographs, you'd need a canvas about the size of an aircraft carrier flight deck to express the pixels as text, more RAM than Dodge's truck division to hold the image, and a great deal of patience to scroll it on a typical LCD.
Really, it's OK to pick the proper tool for the job.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
C-x C-c, RMS. C-x C-c.
Does this mean he will have more time to work on HURD and get that out the door before Duke Nukem Forever?
You wrote, "Every release since then has suffered badly from bloat and other crud."
Please explain.
He needs more time out because he is starting a new career in break dancing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls
You obviously overlook the flamewars he started...
:)
Emacs vs Vi
GPL vs BSDL
GNU/Linux vs Linux
Free vs Open Source
etc etc...
Not that I'm trying to discredit his contributions to Free/Opensource Software, but a "peace" award might be a bit off the mark
Don't quote me on this.
"Took him 32 years to find the key combination for this"
Just take a smaller font and the image should fit right in.
I guess the guys behind Notepad can now take a well needed vacation!
Needs more time for beard maintenance. :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Nope...now he's just working on his own dancing
Oh, Emacs just recently acquired bloat and feeping creaturism?
Actually, I see the problem as the exact opposite. It used to be that people would ask themselves "I got this huge powerful 20 MHz computer with 4 megabytes of RAM, how will I ever I ever use all that power", and the nerd overhearing it would answer "use Emacs", and despite advances in computers, Emacs could keep track and was always the program that could fully utilize your hardware.
However, somewhere along the way we lost out to the competition. I see kids in the Emacs fora who, with a straight face, say they prefer Emacs because it is such as lean and mean editing machine. It is so sad. People nowadays go to Microsoft, KDE or Gnome for software to fully utilize their machines. In the olden days, Emacs would have offered a superset of all of these environments!
I think it is good RMS is stepping back. We need young people to revitalize Emacs, and once again make it a leader in resource consumption. We need to get back to our roots. We need EGACS: Eight Gigabytes And Constantly Swapping.
what's an example of something fancy that mg can't do?
syntax highlighting
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My ford can flatten your emacs and leave your vi in the dust without leaving second gear...
...NetBeans, but then I've had vi or vb too many cups of absinthe.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Bah, all rubbish!
1. Simplicity: [_] Notepad [X] Ed
2. Less bloat: [_] Notepad [X] Ed
3. More users: [_] Notepad [X] Ed
and, remember, it's the standard!
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
...!
1. Simplicity: [_] Ed [X] Pencil
2. Less bloat: [_] Ed [X] Pencil
3. More users: [_] Ed [X] Pencil