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: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> <83y2kwpjfo.fsf@gnu.org> <20200926173651.GU1349@protected.rcdrun.com> <20200927073221.GA13911@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="17888"; 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 Mon Sep 28 05:47:48 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 1kMk8i-0004YC-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38712 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk8h-0002kh-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5M-0008WM-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5L-0004Ax-O7; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMk5I-0008A6-98; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:44:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200927073221.GA13911@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:32:21 +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:256565 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. ]]] > Thus when I said that every word should be reachable, in my opinion > every special term should be defined in the glossary. This is for the > sake of bringing understanding to users. This is something that should > be internal to Emacs. Modifier plus mouse or some key could bring jump > to definition of the word in glossary. Now I understand what you are asking for: * To add more items to the glossary. (Want to suggest some?) and * To make a more convenient command to search the glossary for the word at point. Each of these may be possible. The two are independent and could be worked on separately. > And for just any word, including those words in the menu, anywhere, > there should be possibility to define or search for such words, Sorry, I don't understand that text. -- 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)