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[[!template new="1" text="""Hello! I'm going to talk about what I would like to see""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in GNU Emacs in the future,""" start="00:00:08.960" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and what I would prefer not to find there.""" start="00:00:11.240" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is all within the context""" start="00:00:17.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of GNU Emacs and its purpose.""" start="00:00:22.080" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""GNU Emacs is a part of the GNU operating system,""" start="00:00:25.360" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the purpose of the GNU operating system""" start="00:00:30.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is not simply to do a good job technically,""" start="00:00:33.400" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""not simply to be good to use.""" start="00:00:38.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Its main purpose, its overall purpose,""" start="00:00:42.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is to give people freedom,""" start="00:00:45.760" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and to help them value and defend that freedom.""" start="00:00:48.560" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""A GNU package, by being a convenient, well-written program,""" start="00:00:54.760" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""should contribute to that overall ethical and social goal,""" start="00:01:00.160" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and not only to the usefulness of our software.""" start="00:01:06.000" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is true for GNU Emacs""" start="00:01:10.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""as much as it is for any other free program we’ve developed.""" start="00:01:14.080" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In fact, GNU Emacs is the first GNU program that I released.""" start="00:01:18.720" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I had written some other things before that,""" start="00:01:25.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but didn't release them at that time.""" start="00:01:28.800" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There was no particular use in doing so.""" start="00:01:30.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So it was through GNU Emacs""" start="00:01:34.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I learned about various things""" start="00:01:36.107" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""such as software licenses and how to defend freedom.""" start="00:01:38.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You're of course familiar with what GNU Emacs is today,""" start="00:01:44.240" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""thanks to the contributions of thousands of other people""" start="00:01:50.507" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""who came after me.""" start="00:01:54.340" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""What would I like?""" start="00:01:57.067" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""What would other people like?""" start="00:01:58.880" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Lots of people come to Emacs familiar with VS Code,""" start="00:02:01.533" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and they say, &quot;Please make Emacs more like VS Code.""" start="00:02:06.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Change everything that you did in the 1980s and 90s""" start="00:02:10.520" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to be like that other thing.&quot;""" start="00:02:15.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""That wouldn't be feasible even if we wanted to.""" start="00:02:18.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Our goal is not to be... not resembling VS Code.""" start="00:02:24.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Any resemblance is coincidental.""" start="00:02:30.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""But in particular,""" start="00:02:33.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""we do not want to have extension languages other than Lisp.""" start="00:02:38.040" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Emacs Lisp is the variant of Lisp""" start="00:02:43.874" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that we've always supported,""" start="00:02:47.574" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which has evolved along with Emacs.""" start="00:02:49.574" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We can conceivably have Scheme as well,""" start="00:02:52.960" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""if we can sufficiently solve the problems,""" start="00:02:57.400" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the technical problems of making Scheme""" start="00:03:01.140" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and Emacs Lisp interoperate.""" start="00:03:03.760" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We did some design work, I think that was with Tom Lord,""" start="00:03:06.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""whom the community will greatly miss.""" start="00:03:11.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In the 1990s, there are challenges that remain;""" start="00:03:15.880" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""maybe it can be done.""" start="00:03:19.340" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But a non-Lispy language would be a mistake.""" start="00:03:21.360" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It would divert our development focus into areas""" start="00:03:27.960" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that we don't need, languages that are less powerful,""" start="00:03:33.000" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""less beautiful, and less desirable for the purpose.""" start="00:03:37.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""However, the language that we above all shouldn't support""" start="00:03:46.280" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is JavaScript. That's not because of the language itself.""" start="00:03:52.120" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I don't know the JavaScript language,""" start="00:03:57.333" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I've heard people say it's rather clumsy""" start="00:04:00.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and not well designed, but I don't know this.""" start="00:04:04.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""In any case, it's not what my views are based on.""" start="00:04:07.520" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""There's something much worse about JavaScript,""" start="00:04:12.400" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which is not the language itself, but how people use it.""" start="00:04:14.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Namely, it's been adopted as a way for a network server""" start="00:04:18.800" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to send a program to your machine""" start="00:04:23.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""without your even noticing, so that this program,""" start="00:04:26.120" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""written by you don't know who, will run on your computer""" start="00:04:30.120" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and do you don't know what.""" start="00:04:35.107" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And you're supposed to just trust""" start="00:04:37.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""all and sundry developers of software""" start="00:04:39.774" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for the sites you visit,""" start="00:04:43.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which very commonly do malicious things, often unknown""" start="00:04:45.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to the people who are running the server itself.""" start="00:04:51.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""They paid someone else to design a website""" start="00:04:55.680" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and they probably said, oh,""" start="00:04:59.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""make it fashionable and attractive.""" start="00:05:01.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And they didn't insist, don't snoop on the visitors,""" start="00:05:04.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""even if they understood what the issue was.""" start="00:05:09.760" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So these sites snoop. It's a serious problem.""" start="00:05:12.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The problem comes not from the language JavaScript,""" start="00:05:20.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but from the fact that browsers, by default,""" start="00:05:24.080" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""will pull in JavaScript code that gets sent to them""" start="00:05:28.680" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and run it to do anything at all.""" start="00:05:32.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Emacs is supposed to defend your freedom.""" start="00:05:35.933" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's supposed to help you to defend your freedom,""" start="00:05:39.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and lead you to defend your freedom,""" start="00:05:42.520" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""which means it shouldn't lead you""" start="00:05:45.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to throw your freedom away as soon as you visit a site""" start="00:05:47.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that tries to send you a non-free program""" start="00:05:50.960" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to run straight off of that other machine.""" start="00:05:53.920" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So it's important not to lead users""" start="00:05:58.280" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to do computing this way.""" start="00:06:04.080" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So what are some good things""" start="00:06:06.520" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that we would want instead of this?""" start="00:06:10.800" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""One thing we want""" start="00:06:14.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is to update the &quot;Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming&quot;""" start="00:06:19.874" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by the late Bob Chassell.""" start="00:06:26.574" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's a book that makes it easy for even non-programmers""" start="00:06:29.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to learn to write simple programs in Emacs Lisp.""" start="00:06:34.720" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And from there, they can go on to do better.""" start="00:06:38.000" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We made a pretty big change in Emacs Lisp""" start="00:06:41.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a few years ago, implementing lexical scoping by default.""" start="00:06:44.800" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Originally, Emacs Lisp used to be entirely dynamic scoping,""" start="00:06:49.480" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""like some of the earliest Lisp interpreters.""" start="00:06:57.360" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is a change that should have a careful job""" start="00:07:01.960" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of updating for the introduction.""" start="00:07:06.520" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm sure we've made it clear in the reference manual,""" start="00:07:10.560" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but that's not what beginners read first.""" start="00:07:14.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We need something to teach them in lexical scoping.""" start="00:07:18.400" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""Another thing we could use is to make it easier""" start="00:07:23.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to understand the facilities that we have.""" start="00:07:30.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For instance, I think every package""" start="00:07:33.880" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that you might load into your Emacs and run""" start="00:07:38.560" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""should have a name that helps you remember what job it does.""" start="00:07:42.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It doesn't have to be super long to tell you""" start="00:07:47.680" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""what job that package does.""" start="00:07:51.374" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can read the description to learn that.""" start="00:07:53.607" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But once you've read the description,""" start="00:07:56.874" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it should be memorable. When you see that name again,""" start="00:07:59.600" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you should realize, oh, that's the package I could use""" start="00:08:03.074" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to do &quot;less&quot; and so. We've had a tendency""" start="00:08:06.607" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to give packages names for the sake of pure wordplay""" start="00:08:11.880" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or lack of obvious meaning,""" start="00:08:17.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I think we should add on, to those packages,""" start="00:08:23.574" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""names that people will remember.""" start="00:08:28.189" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""Also, there are ways we can simplify the command interface""" start="00:08:31.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of Emacs. For instance, there are many different parameters""" start="00:08:39.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""users can specify that can have several values,""" start="00:08:43.760" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and sometimes you do various kinds of editing""" start="00:08:48.000" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in one session. That's normal in Emacs,""" start="00:08:51.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and you might want different parameter settings""" start="00:08:54.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for different kinds of editing.""" start="00:08:57.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So you specify parameter value A, do some editing,""" start="00:09:00.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""you specify parameter value B, and do some editing,""" start="00:09:06.200" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and you'd switch back and forth, so you want""" start="00:09:10.240" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to switch back and forth between these parameters.""" start="00:09:13.720" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I think we should aim ...""" start="00:09:17.440" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""People have added various commands to switch""" start="00:09:22.707" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""between the last two or n values of this parameter,""" start="00:09:26.740" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and another command to switch""" start="00:09:30.500" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""between the last two or n values of this [other] parameter,""" start="00:09:32.774" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then that parameter, you know, and that parameter.""" start="00:09:36.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I think we should be able to have""" start="00:09:41.360" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a switch between the last n values command""" start="00:09:44.767" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that works on various different parameters,""" start="00:09:49.120" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and thus makes it easy to remember""" start="00:09:54.320" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that there is this facility.""" start="00:09:57.040" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Because right now the commands to do that are all ad-hoc,""" start="00:09:59.340" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and if you don't use a toggling among the last n values""" start="00:10:03.874" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of a given parameter, you won't know how to do it.""" start="00:10:08.640" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It won't be obvious that there is a way,""" start="00:10:11.840" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so you'd have to go to a suitable manual""" start="00:10:15.367" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and study for a while to think of that.""" start="00:10:17.767" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""We could make this easily discoverable.""" start="00:10:20.100" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""There is another kind of modularity that's important,""" start="00:10:23.620" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and that is modularity at the level of maintenance.""" start="00:10:30.140" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is something all programmers know about, of course,""" start="00:10:34.100" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but in Emacs, various parts interact with other parts,""" start="00:10:38.307" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and we've tried to make them modular in design""" start="00:10:43.300" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by using lots of hooks,""" start="00:10:47.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but we haven't gone as far as we could.""" start="00:10:50.380" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""With some effort, we could find calls""" start="00:10:54.380" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""from over here to over there""" start="00:10:58.060" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that could be replaced by use of hooks,""" start="00:11:00.220" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so that we could reduce the extent""" start="00:11:03.140" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to which you need to know about one part of Emacs""" start="00:11:05.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to maintain another part of Emacs,""" start="00:11:09.974" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I think that as we keep adding more facilities to Emacs,""" start="00:11:12.707" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this kind of modularity will be an investment that pays off.""" start="00:11:17.580" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""There’s one big area of features""" start="00:11:22.220" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I would like to see in Emacs,""" start="00:11:27.240" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and that's the ability to edit""" start="00:11:30.800" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""formatted documents in WYSIWYG, to be able to edit""" start="00:11:33.180" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a letter or a scientific mathematical paper with formulas""" start="00:11:40.340" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or a nicely laid out manual,""" start="00:11:47.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""looking at what it's really going to look like.""" start="00:11:52.900" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now we have free software to do this.""" start="00:11:56.660" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""For instance, I use LibreOffice some of the time.""" start="00:12:00.460" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Sometimes it's faster than writing something""" start="00:12:04.660" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to be formatted with a text formatter""" start="00:12:08.100" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and then formatting it. But when I use LibreOffice,""" start="00:12:11.860" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I always miss the commands and facilities,""" start="00:12:16.180" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the editing facilities of Emacs.""" start="00:12:19.220" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'd like to have them both together, something with""" start="00:12:22.674" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the text formatting capabilities of LibreOffice""" start="00:12:26.500" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or even better of TeX, but the editing commands""" start="00:12:30.340" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and facilities of Emacs. This would be a big job,""" start="00:12:36.060" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but it can be made up of a lot of medium-sized jobs.""" start="00:12:40.300" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If people start working on those medium-sized jobs,""" start="00:12:45.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""then in a number of years""" start="00:12:50.020" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""we'll have something absolutely amazing.""" start="00:12:52.060" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""But one thing I think we really shouldn't have""" start="00:12:55.460" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is the equivalent of a modern web browser.""" start="00:13:01.140" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The World Wide Web started out in the 1990s""" start="00:13:06.500" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in a much simpler form,""" start="00:13:10.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""where a web page described its contents,""" start="00:13:13.874" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the web browser laid them out,""" start="00:13:17.820" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the user could parameterize""" start="00:13:21.180" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how to lay out various kinds of situations.""" start="00:13:23.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This was not only convenient for users""" start="00:13:27.140" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""who wanted to control things and understand things,""" start="00:13:31.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it was also freedom-respecting""" start="00:13:35.974" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""because the layout was done by your browser.""" start="00:13:39.740" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If you had a free browser, you were in control,""" start="00:13:43.020" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""even though the browser was complicated already.""" start="00:13:48.100" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But starting around two decades ago,""" start="00:13:51.620" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""there was an explosion in the complexity of browsers""" start="00:13:54.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""as companies wanted to have more and more control""" start="00:13:58.820" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""over exactly what would appear on a user's screen.""" start="00:14:02.780" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""So they invented lots of features to control that,""" start="00:14:07.700" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""features where the user couldn't really customize""" start="00:14:12.474" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how something would actually appear""" start="00:14:16.007" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""because the whole point was that""" start="00:14:18.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the company could control that.""" start="00:14:21.307" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And JavaScript was sort of the ultimate level""" start="00:14:23.807" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of &quot;the company controls everything.&quot;""" start="00:14:27.020" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Because of this, going beyond the simple level""" start="00:14:32.107" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of web page formatting features in Emacs""" start="00:14:38.500" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is basically heading down a path that leads to subjugation.""" start="00:14:43.540" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's a path that we need to stay away from.""" start="00:14:50.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's a path to an unjust world of computing""" start="00:14:54.740" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that you can easily see around you.""" start="00:15:00.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Web browsers nowadays are designed to display ads""" start="00:15:03.420" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that you may not want to see.""" start="00:15:08.700" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""They're designed for DRM.""" start="00:15:11.667" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""They're designed for companies to snoop on you""" start="00:15:17.900" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in unobvious ways. And all of that""" start="00:15:22.420" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""we should protect ourselves from,""" start="00:15:26.300" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""protect our users from.""" start="00:15:28.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""So I hope that some of you will be enthusiastic""" start="00:15:31.300" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about some of these changes,""" start="00:15:39.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""especially towards editing formatted text.""" start="00:15:42.060" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If you want to get involved, we have""" start="00:15:46.940" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a development discussion list called emacs-devel@gnu.org.""" start="00:15:51.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can join that. You can also,""" start="00:15:57.820" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""if you get interested in working on a package""" start="00:16:02.380" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and you're not an experienced Emacs Lisp developer,""" start="00:16:05.740" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it's a very good idea to look for an experienced developer""" start="00:16:09.500" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to talk with.""" start="00:16:13.740" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Make sure you can write programs in Emacs Lisp first.""" start="00:16:14.980" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It's not useful to take up the expert’s time learning that.""" start="00:16:19.220" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""You can still learn it from the introduction.""" start="00:16:24.260" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But after that, when it's a matter of how to design""" start="00:16:27.407" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""your favorite package, do have a discussion with developers.""" start="00:16:31.660" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""They'll give you design ideas""" start="00:16:36.180" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that will help you make a package that we put into Emacs.""" start="00:16:39.060" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Now it's time for questions.""" start="00:16:43.180" video="mainVideo-rms" id="subtitle"]]



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