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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by morelisp on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:42PM (#21185125)
Wiegley has probably done more to make Emacs exciting again than anyone since the XEmacs fork.

(Which, hey, speaking of RMS driving off contributors...)

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by hvis on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:48PM (#21218492)
Really? He did?

Anyway, he hasn't done much in Emacs development for years now, I think. As a maintainer, his actual tenure was very brief.

Eli Zaretskii is the acting maintainer now.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by oknenavin on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:59PM (#21185305)
Sure, but taking part of a political games, doesn't make him a favor.
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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by lvh on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:05PM (#21186932)
What exactly is your position? Is John Wiegly an important contributor to the GNU project or not?
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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by uncletaco on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:47AM (#21189437)
He is, in my opinion, considering he’s the primary maintainer of what has been called GNU’s flagship application, emacs.
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