Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Kai Großjohann]

Niels Freimann <nfreimann@firemail.de> writes:

> I am running emacs -nw as an perfect vi replacement.
> Therefore there is only one text editor, emacs, on my
> machine. However I don't believe that in the year 2003 
> when most users running linux on fast ia32 machines a tty 
> emacs is the future. Its rather a *nostalgia* for older users
> like we are. Furthermore my argument was removing 
> anything else than gtk2 as X11 target, and creating two 
> separate branches for tty and gtk2, sharing common code
> via libraries.  An tty and an gtk2 emacs thats enough. 
> Otherwise the code base will become too large.

What's the point in having two programs that share 99% of their source
code?

It's like suggesting to split Linux into two versions, one for the
masses with IDE drives, and another for a few die-hards with SCSI
drives.

IMHO, it doesn't make any sense at all.
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