From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:56:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8rickso.fsf@gnu.org> References: <863691n4xl.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87imhw431x.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mu78huhx.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> <86imhqd6oi.wl-me@enzu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="122947"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, pcr910303@icloud.com, seb@k-7.ch, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Ahmed Khanzada Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 16:58:12 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 1jRdIp-000Vrg-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:58:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44994 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRdIo-0003VI-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRdHr-0002kp-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRdHq-00036Y-Ma; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1210 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jRdHq-0004Au-21; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:57:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86imhqd6oi.wl-me@enzu.ru> (message from Ahmed Khanzada on Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:04:13 -0700) 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:247586 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:04:13 -0700 > From: Ahmed Khanzada > Cc: Po Lu , > Sébastien Gendre , > 조성빈 , > Emacs developers > > Let's say tomorrow Emacs is like VS Code running Emacs Lisp in a Guile > VM. Is the idea that if we compete in the same modes as the modernist > editors, we can steal enough people from them that we will advance the > cause of free software? More users generally means more contributors, more future developers, and better Emacs. And yes, it advances the cause of Free Software, like any other free package that attracts users.