From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43636: 28.0.50; About Emacs, shall be descriptive and point to Info file Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:52:15 +0300 Message-ID: <20200927065215.GB13324@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <833633pvuw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23974"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: 43636@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 08:53:20 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQYi-00068J-0B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:53:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60626 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQYh-0000BM-2Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQYQ-0000B5-Px for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQYQ-0005de-Bl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQYQ-00023j-2M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jean Louis Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43636 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43636-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43636.16011895577878 (code B ref 43636); Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43636) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Sep 2020 06:52:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48231 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQXs-00022s-HS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:40187) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQXq-00022e-EH for 43636@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.80.35.45]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000081F4C.000000005F7036A3.00003AB5; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:52:18 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <833633pvuw.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:189091 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-09-27 09:39]: > > From: Jean Louis > > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:39:48 +0200 > > > > One basic example is that the page does not tell to user that Emacs is > > editor. So the "About Emacs" is not straight to the point to tell what > > Emacs is. > > What would you suggest to say there? Emacs is not just an editor, but > OTOH whatever we want to say we need to say succinctly, so as not to > overflow the single line we have for that. That is good question how to formulate the designation for characteristics that is not only the text editor. For me, it is ready user interface that I use to manage the database and collect information, yet all those functions are still text editor functions. It is viewing images, PDF, epub, djvu files, it is much more than text editor. That is important point that shall be presented. For me it is: general computing environment Jean