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: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:49:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@condition-alpha.com> <91bb3e347d5caed9487a2cd8e6d0db04@condition-alpha.com> <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> <916af7e9-961b-44e5-ab11-0f128f52a8fe@default> <39133459-6582-4772-b2bf-03eb123cb22b@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="30064"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 05:50:45 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 1kMkBY-0007j6-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:50:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMkBX-0005Lm-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMkAE-0004Gb-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMkAB-00057Z-Jn; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMkA6-0000UV-Bn; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:49:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <39133459-6582-4772-b2bf-03eb123cb22b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:49:17 -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:256567 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. ]]] > No, it does not assert that. > Verb: conflate kun'fleyt > Add together different elements > "The colours conflate well"; > - blend, flux, mix, commingle, immix, fuse, > coalesce, meld, combine, merge I am surprised. The only meaning I have ever seen is to mistakenly identify things that are different. If that is not what you meant, then I apologize for the mistake. Here's what you wrote: > > > > Should we really conflate the set of Emacs > > > > users with "registered repository users"? Can you state your intended meaning in different words? > If we're looking for a poll/sampling, is this a > helpful way to represent Emacs users in general? > Frankly, I don't know. But I recognize that > there's a conflation - the two sets aren't the > same. Each time you use the word conflate, I am unsure what meaning you have in mind. What operation with these two sets that you mean? Taking the union of them? Treating then as intersubstitutable? Something else? -- 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)