Comment by eviks

5 months ago

> Does it matter if I'm the only one using it?

Yes, you yourself can also suffer from that breakage, and worst of all, might no even notice it right away, so have a period of silent issues

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kstrauser  5 months ago

That’s directly true of all FOSS. Any time you fork something, you have to keep adapting to changes in upstream.

  • eviks  5 months ago

    This isn't about adapting to future changes, but noticing breakage in the current system.

    But also, even in FOSS there can be projects that value stability and isolation, so if you fix some plugin that misbehaves you don't need to adapt because the underlying editor APIs that plugin relied on are stable and also isolated in a way where your changes can't break other users

nitros  5 months ago

Eh, Emacs isn't really a system where broken behaviour goes unnoticed. It either works as you expect or something isn't working correctly.

  • eviks  5 months ago

    There is no magical system that can ensure no bug goes unnoticed

    > or something isn't working correctly.

    the issue isn't whether a bug exists, it's whether/when you notice this