mighty emacs only gets one line description on debian

mighty emacs only gets one line description on debian

[Dan Jacobson]

Dear RMS, the mighty emacs only gets a one line description on debian.

>>>>> "C" == Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

C> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:07:46AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Anyway, one liner "snob" descriptions just have to go.
>> 
>> $ apt-cache show emacs21
>> Description: The GNU Emacs editor
>> GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
>> 
>> Oops, I see, it is self-documenting.

C> that's actually a perfectly adequate description.  it tells someone
C> who has never heard of emacs before that it is an editor.  good enough.

C> a description doesn't have to (and shouldn't!) summarise all of a package's
C> features, all it needs to do is give someone a rough idea of what kind of
C> beastie it is.

C> for a package like emacs, it's basically impossible to summarise all of its
C> features anyway.

Anyways. I set the Reply-to so you can tell them how to summarize
emacs in about 15 lines.