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Re: Questions about throw-on-input
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Questions about throw-on-input |
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Thu, 14 May 2020 23:21:29 -0400 |
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An editor buffer is global mutable state. Global mutable state is at
the heart of GNU Emacs, and I disagree with the idea that we should
try to get away from it. That is a non-goal.
Even if someone showed me that there is no significant inconvenience
in writing a text editor without global mutable state -- which I am
skeptical of -- I would be against putting effort into changing the
internal design of Emacs for goals that are internal. We should
put our effort into features that provide benefits to users.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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