Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:10:29 +0100
> 
> 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.

You are misreading what I wrote, see above.  I said it was
unreasonable to ask users to install some _particular_ compiler, not
_a_ compiler.

That would be similar to only support in ispell.el one particular
speller and not the rest.

> (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).

Strawman.  No one suggested to "implement everything in Emacs Lisp".