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RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the evangelism-is-time-consuming dept.

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."

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  1. Re:More time to work on HURD? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can actually use it right now:
    http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Re:Stallman is still around? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Informative

    ever tried to get line numbers on that thing?
    Sip from the fountain of wisdom...http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki
    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. editing LaTeX under Emacs by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jokes aside, after trying many free and commercial LaTeX editors, I ended up running Auctex under Emacs. Beats anything else. That's my main usage of Emacs (and I use LaTeX a lot, to typeset math staff).