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: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:41:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="28795"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jamtlu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 04:42:19 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 1kMMdm-0007Oh-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:42:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57042 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMdl-0000LL-TI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMd9-0007nN-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMd9-0004nL-9G; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMd8-0001R3-AP; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:41:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:30:08 +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:256503 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. ]]] > Major problem there are abbreviations, words, terms, that are easily > misunderstood by users which may cause rejections. We can't do anything about this as a general issue. We can change specific terms, at least in principle -- though it can be a big hassle and doing it gently can take years. So how about proposing, one at a time, a few changes. > Example is what I have here on the mode line: > -:**- > So that is where the misunderstoods start, with -:**- so that looks > like Chinese to me, even though I know what it means as experienced > Emacs user. But from a view point of empowering a user, I have no clue > how is that empowering me. The information encoded there is very useful, so providing it clearly does "empower the user". Of course, there are many possible ways to present that info. Is there a specific change you would suggest, in how to present it? And why would it be better? > If I move the mouse point there to the first - I can see following > words inside of a tooltip: > Buffer coding system (multi-byte): undecided-unix > Mouse-1: describe coding system > Mouse-3: set coding system We can easily change this. However, a tooltip can't be very long. Would you like to make a concrete proposal? -- 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)