From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190520085241.GA5136@ACM> <834l5m9b27.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="113177"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Paul W. Rankin" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 23 00:44:49 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZya-000THo-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 May 2019 00:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZyZ-0005h1-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZyK-0005Yo-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZun-0005Iq-6D; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZum-0007UI-1F; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:40:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (hello@paulwrankin.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:236915 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. ]]] > Emacs: It seems impossible that a new user would find that part > ugly or confusing. It is unthinkable that it would be > improved. What I actually said was consistent and rational. You have altered it into something I did not say. However, the main point is that there is a limit to how much time we can spend explaining decisions to you. If you don't convince us, at some point you'll just have to accept that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)