From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:12:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87blhxk4mq.fsf@yandex.com> References: <83sgbd1qsz.fsf@gnu.org> <20200921171958.GB3551@protected.rcdrun.com> <20200922125938.oxrh5iqoatfshcnv@Ergus> <1EA63A1B-6FDB-4A03-A294-496B6C16C3BA@gnu.support> <87ft79k8ew.fsf@yandex.com> <87blhxbs5j.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17795"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JabtB8evqgB2Znhmm7otvoEtk5s= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 21:13:11 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 1kKnix-0004WD-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:13:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKniw-0005B9-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKniA-0004jz-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:38334 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKni8-0007Xr-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKni5-0003TC-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:12:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Face: BHjiJOg/Qmj'BQgsAKL@])L)e62P)C"Y=6T Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGQAAAAeBAMAAAAodabAAAAAB3RJTUUH1wQdAAY04/L8hgAA AAlwSFlzAAAewQAAHsEBw2lUUwAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAASUExURc7OzpwAAAAAAP////8A AGNj/2aqqTQAAAA8SURBVHjaYzA2NnEBAmdj01D8wNgYpM7F2JiBgYFREAgEGJiU8AMGBpA6QaCG UVtGbRm1ZdSWUVsGjS0Aq20lJnMawnkAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/22 10:02:06 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.248, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:256337 Archived-At: >>>>> Mingde (Matthew) Zeng writes: >> As I understand things, the "E" in emacs is for extensible. > IIRC Emacs is short for Editor MACroS. Thanks. My mistake, but it doesn't invalidate the rest of my post. Best wishes