From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new Emacs HELLO file?? Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fxbb7hp1.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <87hbvrk2df.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87tyzr5pq4.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <87fxba1e92.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ab1if6dj.fsf%kawabata.taichi@gmail.com> <83tyzq9eqy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251689643 24997 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2009 03:34:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, kawabata.taichi@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 05:33:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MhxeV-0008Gb-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:33:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhxeV-00083h-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxdj-0007b8-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxde-0007ZQ-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49871 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxde-0007ZL-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52763) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhxde-0000l5-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhxdd-00068O-AO; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <83tyzq9eqy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:12:21 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114892 Archived-At: > As there are thousands of languages in the world, attempting to add > every languae unconditionaly may shadow the purpose of HELLO file. How can extra languages in HELLO shadow its purpose? If we put the most important things at the top, there is no harm having lots of languages after that. I think there are some 3,000 living languages. If each one takes 10 bytes, that's 30,000 bytes, which is no big deal.