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Emacs!

Emacs!

Posted Nov 12, 2009 2:18 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Clutter by sbergman27
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010

Some people find Emacs useful. The disk storage needed for a complete and full-featured copy of Emacs is cheap, and the RAM is getting cheaper all the time. (If your every machine doesn't have 4G of RAM yet, why don't they?)

Therefore, every Gnome program should depend on Emacs. Every Gnome desktop should run Emacs at startup, and re-start Emacs whenever it's shut down. Anyone who doesn't want Emacs can use gconf-editor to make Gnome start it up minimized. How could anybody complain about that?

We can make the same argument for every program in the repository. Evolution: who doesn't check their e-mail when they log in? Firefox: many people spend all their time in a browser, it should be ready as soon as possible, and it should be re-started automatically because it crashes a lot.


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