From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii 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 09:38:47 +0300 Message-ID: <833633pvuw.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10791"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 43636@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 08:40:21 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 1kMQM9-0002hz-Hd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56424 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQM8-0005zp-AR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQLq-0005ze-88 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQLp-0004BD-TQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQLp-0001kv-P9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:40:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:40:01 +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=B43636.16011887516691 (code B ref 43636); Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:40:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43636) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Sep 2020 06:39:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48214 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQL0-0001jq-Jo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53262) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQKy-0001jc-Fj for 43636@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQKt-00047o-6U; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1599 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMQKs-0005oO-6P; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:39:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:39:48 +0200) 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:189090 Archived-At: > 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.