From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:52:02 +0200 Message-ID: <435A0BC2.4030402@student.lu.se> References: <1129908768.17607.6.camel@nuitari.boston.ximian.com> <435A0153.1000106@soem.dk> <435A06C7.80006@student.lu.se> <435A0A33.4060100@soem.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129974920 25434 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 09:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rodney Dawes , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 11:55:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETG4a-0003dQ-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETG4Z-0000cc-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETG37-0000aw-24 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETG2u-0000Y0-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETG2q-0000W8-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ETG2r-0001wW-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4349BB86002E2694; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:52:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Lars Hansen In-Reply-To: <435A0A33.4060100@soem.dk> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44565 Archived-At: Lars Hansen wrote: >Lennart Borgman wrote: > > > >>A very important feature of Emacs for me (currently using MS Windows) >>is the portability. Maybe a bag of some kind with the Gnu-horns? (I >>would like a backpack, but that's me and it is too difficult in small >>sizes of course.) >> >>In a bag you can carry many tools and you can move -- to GNU/Linux. >>The Gnu-horns tells where you are going. >> >> > >The portability is important, but I don't think it is the main feature >of Emacs. So I prefer "tools" or "editing tool" as a metaphor rather >than "portability". If just some talented artist would draw a swiss army >knife with the gnu horns on it ... :-) > > One of the main feature of a swiss army knife is perhaps also the portability ;-) But I do not believe it is possible to make a 16x16 swiss army knife with gnu horns ... -- or rather: I do not believe it is possible to recognize it ...