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Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of E


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:17:55 +0300

> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 14:46:56 +0800
> 
> I noticed that the following statement from the AUTHORS file of Emacs:
> 
> ;;;
> Richard M. Stallman: wrote [The original GNU Emacs and numerous files]
>   easymenu.el image-mode.el menu-bar.el paren.el
> and co-wrote cc-align.el cc-cmds.el cc-defs.el cc-engine.el cc-langs.el
>   cc-menus.el cc-mode.el cc-styles.el cc-vars.el font-lock.el
> and changed files.el keyboard.c simple.el xterm.c xdisp.c rmail.el
>   fileio.c process.c sysdep.c buffer.c xfns.c window.c subr.el
>   configure.ac startup.el sendmail.el emacs.c Makefile.in editfns.c
>   info.el dired.el and 1338 other files
> ;;;
> 
> But I've never seen him on Emacs relevant mailing lists. Does Richard
> M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?

The AUTHORS file lists contributions to Emacs since the very
beginning, more than 35 years ago.  Any contributions since then till
this day are reflected in AUTHORS, and what the contributors do lately
doesn't matter at all.  How far back did you go in your study of RMS's
contributions?



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