From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:19:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <863691n4xl.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87imhw431x.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mu78huhx.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="69104"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, seb@k-7.ch, pcr910303@icloud.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 22 05:20:23 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 1jR5vz-000Hsd-Oc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 05:20:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jR5vy-0006VL-Pg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jR5v4-0005NP-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jR5v4-0005Sd-2L; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jR5v3-0002JY-7E; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:19:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:17:00 +0300) 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:247489 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. ]]] > So for all questions about changing defaults, we should ask ourselves, > do we prioritize the existing 5% (or 3%, as SO poll says) userbase that > will naturally continue shrinking over the years, or whether we prefer > to make life easier and more productive for the users that should come > later. This is entirely logical if our main priority is how successful Emacs is, rather than what it does. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)