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Re: Emacs Survey

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Post by smartmic »

Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?

Re: Emacs Survey

#4

Post by okprod »

Who's behind this survey / it's not clear to me from looking at the survey page. Also kind of odd for a survey about Emacs to require nonfree JavaScript.

Re: Emacs Survey

#5

Post by tephra »

smartmic wrote: post #3

Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?

Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.

Re: Emacs Survey

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Post by okprod »

tephra wrote: post #5
smartmic wrote: post #3

Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?

Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.

I'm not on the mailing list / saw the survey first on HN. At first glance thought it was marketing spam or something.

Re: Emacs Survey

#7

Post by szszrk »

okprod wrote: post #6
tephra wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.

I'm not on the mailing list / saw the survey first on HN. At first glance thought it was marketing spam or something.

So it clearly is a survey for people on the mailing list and others would just spoil the numbers :)

Re: Emacs Survey

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Post by nobody9999 »

okprod wrote: post #4

Who's behind this survey / it's not clear to me from looking at the survey page. Also kind of odd for a survey about Emacs to require nonfree JavaScript.

> Who's behind this survey / it's not clear to me from looking at the survey page.

That's a great question. Whois does not provide any identifying information (other than Google as the registrar) for the domain, and the site appears to be hosted on the Google cloud.

It would be interesting to have such information. Perhaps if someone involved is here on HN, they could share that information?

>Also kind of odd for a survey about Emacs to require nonfree JavaScript.

I'd note that while the online form does require javascript (and that it's non-free is noted on the page), you aren't required to use it. Rather you also have the option to download the survey template and email it to the group.

Re: Emacs Survey

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Post by choeger »

I entered this at the end:

  Emacs is a good text editor and I run it for every text file I read or write. As a text editor however, emacs can never handle things like project-management, software development and testing in the same way as an IDE. Yet, it has all the features of an IDE available in some melpa repository. Unfortunately, one is always forced to configure the editor and tweak it here and there to get maybe 80% of what would be possible. And then your settings break your workflow in *that other project* or for a simple plain file. Emacs should finally acknowledge that projects are a thing and support them out-of-the-box.

  I would wish for an emacs daemon that considers itself responsible for a single project and manages the language server, version control, compiler and all the other project settings. Whenever I open a file in the scope of that project, the daemon should then configure my emacs instance accordingly to work well in the context of that project.
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