From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83lfhjkq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <8620B5CD-CA92-46BF-80A8-DBE7052F4CA6@gmail.com> <87d02haj4g.fsf@mercovich.net> <87pn6fmbe4.fsf@mercovich.net> <351805b9-749b-46a6-a360-97b453def853@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eduardo@mercovich.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 05:43:10 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 1kKZCv-0005LX-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:43:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35460 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZCu-0007mh-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZAk-0005jJ-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZAj-0006fS-2S; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZAY-00071x-AU; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <351805b9-749b-46a6-a360-97b453def853@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:07:48 -0700 (PDT)) 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:256310 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 think it is ok to call these things "Emacs distributions" -- just don't abbreviate that to "distributions". I think "modified Emacs releases" would be a better term to use. -- 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)