Emacs Controversy Index

Richard Stallman

• Richard Stallman Got Cancer. 2023

• History of LISP, Emacs, Symbolics (Daniel Weinreb Rebut Richard Stallman)
• Richard Stallman Stole Emacs Source Code from James Gosling

• Richard Stallman Resigned from FSF, 2019-09-16
• Richard Stallman at Microsoft, 2019
• Richard Stallman, Emacs Tyrant (2018-03)
• Richard Stallman Pushing for GPL3, Kick Out Free Software from Free Software Platform (2017-08)
• Richard Stallman: What's magit? (2014-09)
• Richard Stallman Wants Emacs to be Word Processor (2013)
• Free Software Foundation, How Much Donation They Get? (2015)
• Richard Stallman on Open Source (~2009)
• Richard Stallman Speech Requirement (2011)

misc

• Emacs: JavaScript Mode War (2008)

• Bozhidar Batsov vs SJW, RuboCop (2020-06-10)

• Linus Torvalds: Respect is Earned Not Given (2014)
• Lisp Programer Daniel Weinreb Died (1959 to 2012)

Controversy of Emacs Technical Issues

• Emacs Lisp Doc String Curly Quote Controversy (2015)
• On Emacs Visual Lines, by Don Hopkins and Mark Crispin (2013)
• GNU Emacs Removes Color Emoji Support on the Mac (2016)
• Language Server Protocol (LSP) Kills Emacs
• Emacs: Ugly Redisplay Internals Hack (2016)

The Emacs Cult

• GNU Emacs Development Inefficiency (2010)
• Emacs Dev Inefficiency and Emacs Web 2.0? (2010)
• GNU Emacs and XEmacs Schism (2001)
• My Experience of GNU Emacs vs XEmacs (2007)
• Problems of Emacswiki (2008)
• Emacs Cult Problem: Emacs vs Windows Notepad (2011)
• Emacs Undo and Emacs Cult Problem (2011)
• Emacs: Have You Read Emacs Manual? (2010)

xah lee

• Freenode IRC Emacs Channel Ban on Xah Lee (2008)
• Edward O'Connor vs Xah Lee (2012)
• Xah Emacs Tutorial Criticisms: Emacs Lisp, Coding Style, Language Idioms, Controversy (2013)
• The Sigil War, Syntactic Indicator for Types of Function and Variable (2016)
• Emacs, Why You Should Not Use the Package Dash (2020)