Re: Clojure mode

[Richard Stallman]

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  > clojure-mode is an existing package with thousands (tens of thousands? 
  > millions?) users and certain existing functionality. Other (also 
  > third-party) packages rely on it for various functionality. It's not a 
  > bare-bones major mode with basic functionality only.

This underscores my point: clojure-mode is an important feature, so
Emacs should provide it.  It should be a full-fledged part of Emacs,
documented in Emacs.  To leave these jobs to nonrecommended add-ons,
such as found in NonGNU-ELPA, is not doing a good job.

We hope that Emacs users who write extensions will appreciate Emacs
enough to contribute them to Emacs.  Usually they do.  When they
don't, that's unfortunate -- but we can make up for it.  It isn't an
lot of work compared with all the work we do on Emacs in a year.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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