From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timothy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - what features? 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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:290166 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jean, Jean Louis writes: > ** What features motivated you to initially try Emacs? :MultiSelect: > - [ ] Extensibility > - [ ] Package/ecosystem > - [ ] Community > - [ ] Part of the GNU project / FSF > > You are forgetting the main feature of =E2=80=9Ctext editing=E2=80=9D. Added. > The main reason why I have started using Emacs is because it was text edi= tor > and displayed in every Window Managers=E2=80=99 menus. I could not possib= ly know of > extensibility neither of packages, as I have not opened Emacs, I have cli= cked > on it and started studying, only then I could find extensibility and pack= ages. > Without opening it, launching it, I would not know about the community > neither, and I would not easily find out it is GNU project. If somebody is trying Emacs from word of mouth etc. I=E2=80=99d imagine the extensibility of Emacs may have been mentioned. > =E2=80=9CExtensibility=E2=80=9D is not understandable to many users, make= a survey in > simple English. Hmm, personally I don=E2=80=99t see the issue here. > Myself I do not understand how =E2=80=9Cpackage=E2=80=9D would motivate m= e to use > Emacs, but if you wish to say that, then please: Well, I=E2=80=99d say Magit and Org-mode are pretty motivating packages. > Ecosystem > I=E2=80=99m talking about the Emacs package ecosystem, to which the comment= s there do not seem to apply. It may be clearer just to say =E2=80=9CPackage(s)=E2=80= =9D though. All the best, Timothy --=-=-=--