> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:10:33 +0100 > From: <to...@tuxteam.de> > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > > Yes, Emacs is the text specialist. > > It has taken years and a bunch of very smart, experienced and *patient* > folks to achieve that.
It took many years because those smart, experienced, and patient people made bad decisions, twice, and had to correct them later, which required rewriting several important internal mechanisms. Which tells you that smarts, experience, and patience are not enough to get this right the first time. But Guile doesn't need to go through all that, it can just use what Emacs learned the hard way. > But then Emacs has users who don't run away screaming when the GUI > widget shows funky stuff. Oh yes, they did. How they did! Those screams are the reason why the stuff was rewritten. Once again, Guile doesn't need to go through all that, it just needs to learn from others' experience. > Perhaps the Emacs approach might be the right one for Guile? For some reason, Guile developers are not necessarily convinced, AFAIU.
