From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: "56510@debbugs.gnu.org" <56510@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:13:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548885EAD15E12586E9A7A54F3869@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmknD8Cv2DHZ9aVcpYQXGgWc1=MgFY7n=TgLHK92++2hCg@mail.gmail.com>
> Let me put it a bit more bluntly: they make Emacs
> look scruffy and antiquated, and should much
> sooner be hidden than actively promoted.
Heaven forbid that Emacs should appear scruffy
and antiquated! We can't have folks seeing that.
Take all them longhairs out NOW, hose 'em down,
shave their heads, and disinfect 'em. Schnell !
> > And I put it to you that most of Emacs looks
> > "a bit dated" to most people (at least by default).
>
> Indeed. We can and should improve that.
Some of the best people and things look "dated".
Some of the worst look up-to-date.
Emacs is a Stradivarius. And carefully scruffy
by design.
Emacs is a rain forest, with things growing on/in
things growing on/in things growing on/in things...
You prefer a blockhouse of antiseptic concrete
cells, perhaps. Well, you can have that too -
just customize till squeaky-clean, wash, rinse,
repeat...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-12 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-12 3:06 bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu) Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 3:45 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-12 8:27 ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-12 9:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 13:29 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 15:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-07-12 15:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-13 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13 22:58 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-15 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-12 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 14:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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