Re: Emacs Mac port

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/29/2015 08:00 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:

> Yet this is precisely what we do, unwillingly: GNU Emacs lack of features on 
> GNU Linux (compared to forks available on other systems) gives people practical 
> reasons to use a non-GNU Emacs, on a non-free platform (that's where Emacs (but 
> not GNU Emacs) works best).
>
> Thus not accepting these MacOS-specific features in GNU Emacs only encourages 
> people to prefer a non-GNU fork of Emacs; it doesn't do anything to prevent 
> them from switching to a non-free platform. In conclusion, instead of using GNU 
> Emacs on a non-free platform, people use a non-GNU Emacs on a non-free platform.

I think we consider people using non-GNU Emacs less of a problem than 
people using non-free platforms (or, worse, moving to them). Forks of 
Emacs are still libre software, after all.

Since adding feature to GNU Emacs that give more advantage to non-free 
platforms might encourage the latter, this seems to make a stronger case 
in favor of adding support for all (?) of the features in question on 
GNU/Linux than doing anything else, like merging Emacs Mac Port.