From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman 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 23:44:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <833633pvuw.fsf@gnu.org> <20200927065215.GB13324@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8643"; 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 Mon Sep 28 05:45:30 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 1kMk6U-000298-1X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:45:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35212 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk6T-00019h-1l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk63-00018O-Gn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk63-0004JK-7L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk63-0001AZ-5z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:45:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:45:03 +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=B43636.16012646964445 (code B ref 43636); Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:45:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43636) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Sep 2020 03:44:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50940 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5v-00019d-W2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55692) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5u-00019Q-Az for 43636@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5p-0004F5-20; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5m-0008Fy-Me; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200927065215.GB13324@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:52:15 +0300) 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:189173 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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. "Text editor and more"? "Text editor and much more"? "Text editor^2"? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)