From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:13:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s0qpiwh.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ef4qna01.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Wed, 22 May 2019 18:55:58 +1000")
"Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com> writes:
> Emacs, a play by Bertolt Brecht
> -------------------------------
>
> Emacs: Please proffer your suggestions on how Emacs could be
> improved, for we wish to attract new users!
>
> Me: As a comparatively new user, I remember when learning Emacs
> I found this part ugly and confusing. Here is a suggestion
> from such a perspective on how it could be improved.
>
> Emacs: It seems impossible that a new user would find that part
> ugly or confusing. It is unthinkable that it would be
> improved.
>
BTW, that's just the dry and direct tone that is common here. That
happens to all of us. It doesn't mean that your opinion is not
respected or considered.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-22 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-20 3:03 Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-20 8:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 13:25 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 14:26 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 16:08 ` Ken Olum
2019-05-20 23:19 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21 2:06 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21 2:22 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-21 2:39 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21 20:19 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-22 2:46 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22 8:55 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 15:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 16:13 ` 조성빈
2019-05-22 16:13 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-05-22 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-20 8:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 13:35 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 13:47 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 14:18 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 15:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21 2:34 ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 16:14 ` Sam Steingold
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