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: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <20200921170740.GA3551@protected.rcdrun.com> <20200922062437.GM6402@protected.rcdrun.com> <83zh5hx5qf.fsf@gnu.org> 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="38766"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 05:42:21 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 1kKvfh-000A0J-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:42:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40476 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvfg-0004Gp-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveh-00033P-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveg-0002xx-PJ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvef-00065f-2A; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:22:03 +0000) 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:256343 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. ]]] > To make a survey online today is not so hard and not so expensive, > turn advertising on and ask people to answer few questions in > exchange for free software download, you can give them Emacs as > award. We would not want to act pushy towards users, but we could find gentle ways to invite them to answer questions anonymously. However, in the absence of any real problem with having a configuration wizard, we may as well do that. -- 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)