Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [Was: bug#25148:])

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Like it or not, [the Emacs developers] get the priority right
  > > now. Being nice to new users is great, but until they become
  > > contributors and ease our workload, serving them can't be the
  > > priority.

That is a valid position _for tools for Emacs developers_.

The functioning of Emacs is a different area.  There, we
should put some effort into facilitin learning Emacs,
by simplifying interfaces when we can.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)