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.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:05:35 +0300 Message-ID: <20200928220535.GE18207@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@condition-alpha.com> <91bb3e347d5caed9487a2cd8e6d0db04@condition-alpha.com> <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> <916af7e9-961b-44e5-ab11-0f128f52a8fe@default> <39133459-6582-4772-b2bf-03eb123cb22b@default> 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="21465"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 00:06:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1kN1ID-0005WK-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:06:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43512 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kN1IC-00011U-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kN1HJ-0000Nt-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:33519) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kN1HG-0005vo-Tl; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.154.90]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000008DCA2.000000005F725E36.00002315; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:05:42 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/28 16:35:58 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256643 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman [2020-09-28 06:50]: > Each time you use the word conflate, I am unsure what meaning you have > in mind. What operation with these two sets that you mean? Taking > the union of them? Treating then as intersubstitutable? Something else? Use that example, and imagine how a users are faced with so many words that user does not know, is going to become unsure. You said it well. That is why each word that one reads or writes in Emacs, should be easily looked up for its definition. And I mean each word, not just special or technical words. GNU has GCIDE and dictionary servers, there is Wordnut, there are hacker dictionaries and abbreviations.