Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > My opinion is that GNU Emacs is doomed as an IDE because it tries to
>> > implement all functionality from scratch, for both portability and
>> > licensing reasons.
>> No.  The only reason why it doesn't use things like gccsense is for lack
>> of contributions that do that, nothing else, AFAIK.
> Do you really think contributions to enhance GNU Emacs for working
> with third-party tools would be accepted, even when such tools were
> not GPL-compatible?  Thanks.

They don't need to be GPL-compatible, just that they be Free.


        Stefan