From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:09:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ed718o45.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h6bzqj2v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:56:24 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:27:39 +0100
>>
>> Reviewing the Emacs website, and previous discussions on this list below
>> (admittedly not recent, but still relevant). It seems important to add
>> some text on Lisp which is not currently there, as per ideas of RMS and
>> Eli summarised below.
>
> Why is this important?
It appeared to be an outstanding documentation item to add to the
website, using the summary text written from RMS.
I personally believe it is important and useful in the context of an
introduction to Emacs such as the website. For new users, or indeed
new contributors, Emacs Lisp may appear an intriguing choice, and that
summary offers a compelling reason for Lisp.
>> What do people think?
>
> I think it's a relatively minor issue, not worth arguing about. But
> it looks like we are up for such a discussion anyway...
Right, it may not be an issue at all -- up to you -- only a suggestion for
documentation improvement.
Emacs supports many languages, and on this is getting better thanks to eglot,
tree-sitter etc.
I thought the thread implicitly related to Emacs Lisp. As the elisp manual says:
"The great power of the Lisp language makes it ideal for
other purposes as well, such as writing editing commands."
I should apologise as my initial thread was in retrospect too short on
context. It wasn't meant to start a sort of flamewar, sorry it has
caused you to respond to many tangents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-06 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-04 22:27 Emacs website, Lisp, and other Jeremy Bryant
2024-08-04 22:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 4:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 9:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-05 10:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 11:37 ` divya
2024-08-05 11:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-05 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 11:45 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-05 12:56 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-05 13:16 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-05 14:46 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-05 21:28 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-05 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 16:27 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 (was: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other) Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 17:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 18:32 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-05 20:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-06 7:14 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-06 7:21 ` Org mode API (was: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-06 8:23 ` Org mode API Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-10 16:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-06 11:54 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-08 2:01 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-09 22:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-13 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-09 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-10 5:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-10 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-05 18:58 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 (was: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other) Christopher Dimech
2024-08-05 19:30 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-05 20:02 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-08 2:01 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-06 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 17:13 ` 10 problems with Elisp, part 10 (was: Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other) Yuri Khan
2024-08-06 6:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-06 11:16 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-06 22:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-05 11:56 ` Emacs website, Lisp, and other Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 19:09 ` Jeremy Bryant [this message]
2024-08-06 19:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-06 20:35 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-08-06 22:10 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-06 22:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-06 23:09 ` Drew Adams
2024-08-06 23:21 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-07 1:09 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-08-06 22:26 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-07 5:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 3:53 ` Madhu
2024-08-15 5:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 9:17 ` Madhu
2024-08-15 9:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 6:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 8:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 9:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 16:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-07 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 12:03 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-07 12:16 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-08 2:01 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-08 6:51 ` Joel Reicher
2024-08-07 12:31 ` Christopher Dimech
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-06 13:13 Abraham S.A.H. via Emacs development discussions.
2024-08-07 7:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-07 11:24 ` Christopher Dimech
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