From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Specialized Emacs Features ? Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9376E14B-E917-4494-810A-8F6496E19916@gmail.com> <83bmq6d1f2.fsf@gnu.org> <838tlacz2g.fsf@gnu.org> <59E6B0B8-8D96-4C32-AFEE-4666DC9693E9@gmail.com> <837f0ucwog.fsf@gnu.org> <7C19A7A0-22C6-4CE6-9C66-683000F6B6EE@gmail.com> <8337bicrjm.fsf@gnu.org> <831sr2cmzo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496544974 1621 195.159.176.226 (4 Jun 2017 02:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 02:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 04 04:56:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLi6-0000Bq-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 04:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLiB-00026B-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLi5-00025u-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLi5-0000GW-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLi1-0000B2-AT; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dHLi0-00048O-OA; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:56:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sat, 3 Jun 2017 09:49:13 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215438 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The "Advanced Features" section maybe made sense when the printed > manual was really a thing (3 decades ago?), but then people > started to abuse it and it is now a place where things that are > now considered "basic" are mixed with things that are commonly > used and things that are truly advanced... The "Advanced Features" are the facilities you don't need to know to understand Emacs in general. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.