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: GNU Emacs raison d'etre Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 22:55:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <871rnnvmdx.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnb7sira.fsf@red-bean.com> <83zha8tluq.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9kwi6ta.fsf@osv.gnss.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="64585"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kfogel@red-bean.com, homeros.misasa@gmail.com, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp, eliz@gnu.org To: Sergey Organov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 04:56:04 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 1ja9TA-000GhW-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 04:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53976 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9T9-0007nS-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9SY-0006kZ-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9SU-0003RG-Ol; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9SM-0007N9-NL; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:55:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9kwi6ta.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (message from Sergey Organov on Sat, 16 May 2020 12:10:25 +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:250552 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. ]]] > I'm not sure if it makes sense to implement "pop-up dialog minibuffer" > mode for newbies though, and then if it makes sense to (optionally?) > make it modal. I am partly guessing what that means, but it might be a good feature for starting newbies out, if it explains the minibuffer and leads newbies in switchiing to using ordinary minubuffers. -- 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)