Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?

[Jude DaShiell]

By now possibly, but you failed to understand my original post.  When you
want support for software to continue beyond your life span it pays to
locate and designate with their agreement someone to take over lead
development for you at the appropriate time.  The earlier you do this, the
better if you're careful in your selection process.   It's like continuity
of government and why the United States has a chain of titles 50 deep to
replace the President.


On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor wrote:

> Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > Last I read on an article comparing emacs and vim, Stephen
> > Monier had the emacs lead passed to him by Richard Stallman
> > and the fact that emacs has a line of succession made it
> > different from vim in that vim had no clear line of
> > succession. At that time the lead developer of vim hadn't
> > designated anyone to take over development when the original
> > lead developer of vim could no longer continue developing
> > for whatever reason.
>
> Ha, what is this, Medieval Europe?
>
> I'm sure Vim has a maintainer just like Emacs ...
>
>