My Emacs 31 contributions

For me, landing changes in Emacs upstream always felt somewhat out of reach, so I kinda postponed it for a long while. Perhaps the biggest hurdle was getting over the process to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation, which does feel a bit archaic (download, sign, and return a PDF) and slow (mostly waiting for an email response), though hey, I have nothing but sympathy. Open source is unsustainably tricky. As consumers, we often like free as in freedom and free as in beer, but neither pay the bills. We hope some company steps in to fund these projects, but that rarely happens. As a result, most open source projects are starved (even popular ones), run by volunteers working for free. All that is to say, if the upstream Emacs contribution/onboarding process seems less than ideal, cut it some slack. The project as a whole primarily runs on the blood, sweat, and tears of unpaid contributors. If you can, fund the maintainers you rely on (or better yet, get your employer to do…

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