[ajross]

> It's important to call out bad practices where they exist

I suppose. But second guessing the development of GNU Emacs in 1984 (let's be clear: a program on the short list of the most successful bits of software ever written in the history of computing) might be a bad place to start if you're trying to avoid embarassing yourself.

RMS was writing this, alone, on a VAX most likely, or maybe a Sun 2 if he was really lucky. What hardware do you expect he would have dedicated to that putative "test suite" even if he had time to write it?

Kids today.