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 22:42:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> <83y2kwpjfo.fsf@gnu.org> <20200926173651.GU1349@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="6707"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, 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 04:46:57 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 1kMMiH-0001dK-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:46:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40438 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMiG-0005D9-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMdv-0000ce-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMdv-00056c-Le; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMdr-0001i8-HT; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:42:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200926173651.GU1349@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 20:36:51 +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:256508 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. ]]] > Does the tooltip assume that only experienced user, in this case, > experienced developer is to know what it means?! That particular tooltip is detailed data for an experienced user. It explains the meaning of the specific character that the mouse is on. It does not give general info for a beginnin user about the purpose of displaying that character. There is a good reason to present that detailed data. Experienced users will sometimes find it useful. Can we find a good way to present both the general explanation and the specific data? -- 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)