a crisis is a chance

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Mar 19 12:56:11 EDT 2010


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Because GNU Emacs is even more boring than XEmacs is confused.
> There's really good work being done in some of the larger Lisp
> projects (AUCTeX, CEDET, JDEE), and they do work better with GNU, but
> they generally compete with GUI IDEs and have a rough time competing
> for mindshare.  And if you look at the older ones (AUCTeX, Gnus) you
> see their leadership being quite conservative (in the sense of
> focusing on solid, well-understood improvements) too.

preview-latex is not really a conservative, solid, well-understood
improvement of AUCTeX.

-- 
David Kastrup



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