Sean Perry

@agraven thanks for picking this up. This function is a great example of the meandering, old-school C code. When we can refactor all of these into idiomatic code it will...

@Immortalin We are still here. Unfortunately COVID has not meant free time. Quite the opposite. We chat in the Gitter channel so you can see us interacting. Simple, direct answer....

Here is the deep technical answer. This port was going to hit a wall at some point. Emacs uses some C tricks to make its lisp compilation work and to...

Going upstream could never happen. We all knew that coming in. The Rust ecosystem is not very FSF/GPL friendly. The bits of Emacs could end up in crates. The regex...

If this project needs to make anything more clear, please speak up. > There's a difference between the idea of Emacs and the current implementation of Emacs. Forking allows us...

My personal pet peeve of emacs is that tools like this https://github.com/plexus/chemacs need to exist. I want to get to a point where I can `remacs --use-this-config /path/to/config` and it...

> If those two are true has a rewrite been considered instead? As in, instead of a 1:1 conversion have a new editor who's goal is to support the same...

Personally, I want `--use-this-config /path/to/config` to work (fully no qualifiers). Once we get there, support XDG should be easy enough.

because having that default would break other people. years of people. So adding an easy way to support both is needed.

I support the idea of this. I simply do not want to force it.