I fully understand the conflicts between GPL and the App Store. Please make Emacs iCloud-ready, Dropbox-ready, Pcloud-ready, Box-ready, whatever-ready if you don’t want to create emacs’ own sync service.FSF would never do that and you know why. Apple made it impossible to make GPLed programs for iPad and don't think FSF would be willing to compromise. Having it on the iPad doesn’t.Of course it's absurd. Posted 12:24 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) It would be more useful, in fact, a graphical app with a micro-emacs inside, that people can try to discover the capabilities of emacs while getting work done in the while. The chatting about dark mode or video tutorials is moot. I know you’re programmers I’m more of an editor, Please make easy, really easy, to output a PDF, writing in Markdown, preview an HTML document. Make it easy to import and export common formats. GPL should contemplate an exception in this case.ģ) Import-Export. If an app is universally available to whoever wants to download it, freedom of redistributing it is actually pointless. This crusade against app stores is not in the interest of users. Write GPL4 if needed, talk with Apple and Google, kiss a frog. Want emacs to appeal more to users? Make it work for users, then. Please make Emacs iCloud-ready, Dropbox-ready, Pcloud-ready, Box-ready, whatever-ready if you don’t want to create emacs’ own sync service. Having it on the iPad doesn’t.Ģb) Synchronization. I realize that having emacs on a iPhone borders with absurd ok. A reason to switch to emacs would be the ability to u se it from my iPad. Tomorrow morning I’ll wake up, I’ll wake my Mac up, and I’ll instantly work with whatever document I was working now on the iPad. Any other, er, modern editor is Unicode-enabled, period.Ģ) I’m in bed at the moment, writing with my iPad. Please, don’t tell me how easy it is to fix it. We live with accents and other exotic characters. Here follow the main facts that keep me from investing time on emacs:ġ) I’m European. I do not care about Visual Code Studio or TextMate, I’m happy with BBEdit and I’d be glad to be happier with emacs. I use BBEdit on Mac and would be willing to switch to emacs. Instead, Emacs does not appeal to the “modern” user because of some glaring lacks. Yes, really.Forget other editors, it’s not a matter of competition. Even if you have no interest in text editors in general. Even if you have no interest in Bare Bones. Sounds to me like it's worth upgrading (free for anyone with BBEdit 9.x) and trying again.ġ If you've never read a Bare Bones release notice before, you should. It is now possible to open files significantly larger than before the ceiling isn't unlimited, but it is no longer limited by the previously extant constraints in the OS. How large of a file are you talking about? And how much RAM does your Mac have (both installed and free)?īare Bones released BBEdit 9.6 today, and according to the Release Notes 1 (under Changes): It is not entirely free - you do not have to pay for a license unless you want features that are in the pro activation above and beyond the free license. I've opened some good-sized files with it, and BBEdit didn't even break a sweat. BBEdit is pretty much the standard for opening large text files on a Mac.
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