Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Michal Nazarewicz]

On Sat, Mar 01 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> IMNSHO, it is bad design to ask users to install a particular
> compiler, be it GCC or clang, just to be able to have decent editing
> capabilities for a program source.  What next? shall we require
> LibreOffice to be able to edit text files conveniently?

Emacs already uses ?spell for spell checking, GPG for signatures, and
probably many more tools I'm not aware of.  I also think it's safe to
assume that if someone needs a decent editing capabilities for a program
source, she has tools that are able to compile that program source
already installed.

(I'm not saying that requiring a compiler for completion is the only
possible option, by the way.  I just wanna say, that not everything has
to be implemented in Emacs Lisp and for one, I hope no one will try to
reimplement GPG in Emacs Lisp).

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