PT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:16:24 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Emacs has not shown itself to accommodate systematic corporate >> involvement well. It will as far as I can see always be dependent >> on dedicated individuals instead of corporate support, simply >> because you can't make a business plan involving Emacs development >> and timelines. > > I see. In that case there really is no obvious benefit of devoting > resources to make Emacs more newbie friendly.
You have forgotten my point that _every_ Emacs user tends to be a newbie in a large part of its all-encompassing extent. > BTW, it seems Eclipse will fill this space instead of Emacs. It is > universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and > nothing in particular. I can't speak for Eclipse since I have neither tried and seen it. Nevertheless, I don't doubt that Emacs retains appeal and usefulness to a lot of people. For example, I can't remember anybody ever touting using Eclipse as a development platform for LaTeX, and that is one of the most important applications of Emacs for me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
