Re: [Bug: 21.5-b32] Hyper Apropos confused about user variables, sometimes eats first letter of docstring
On 25 Sep 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull told this:
Nix writes:
> Nothing remotely as good :(
Far be it from me to actually *code* something to help the
competition[1], but "somebody" could start ELPA-izing useful XEmacs
functionality. If so, I *would* be willing to do the admin work to
provide an XEmacs ELPA.
At some point I might find time to do that! however, right now I am too
busy doing Evil Empire day-job work[1] to do much else: it is release
month. Hence the intense distracting-myself by reading mailing lists at
all hours of the day and night. :)
[1] CDDL-licensed stuff in the Linux kernel is evil, right? Thot so.
Footnotes:
[1] I did that twice, and in both cases was snubbed, ignored, and
given zero cooperation[2], and generally upset by the experience.
[2] The RMS concept of "cooperation" has been explicitly defined as
"When Emacs gets 100% of what I want, we can work together."
Curious. The dynamic on emacs-devel has changed quite a bit -- RMS is in
many ways not driving the project anymore -- but I suspect that his
peeves still govern :( i.e. like the Queen of England he rarely bestirs
himself to say anything, but when he does, is listened to. (The
difference is that the Queen is by anyone's standards immensely
politically canny and uses that power only when truly necessary. RMS
is... not so much. These days, I'm afraid, I tend to think of him as
someone who did really valuable work a few decades back, was stricken by
RSI, and diverted himself down comparatively useless paths during that
period of enforced idleness. Though his RSI was by all accounts a lot
less severe than Ben Wing's...)
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