Emacs maintainer steps down

Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by JoshTriplett on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:17PM (#10383163)

Or https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/ , referencing the long-standing issues caused by forcing the use of GCC rather than LLVM (and trying to satisfy someone who doesn't understand why people need to process source code and ASTs for anything fancier than indentation and syntax highlighting).

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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by chetanahuja on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @01:38AM (#10385214)

Holy shit. This is incredible. I love Emacs but it's so sad that the stewardship of this amazing piece of software is in the hands of someone who would rather keep the feature-set substandard because of vague fears that someone might steal the AST's from his precious GCC.

I wonder what would be the problem with someone using libclang to generate the same AST information in a much more convenient fashion. Will it break the GPL in some way?

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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by nanny on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @08:54AM (#10386300)

People can and do use libclang for AST info in the same manner that you're talking about: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode

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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by chetanahuja on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:23AM (#10387116)

Almost didn't click on that link because it looked like a joke link (Sarcasm and irony!!). Glad I did and found something new :-)

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