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: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:55 -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="575"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, bobnewell@bobnewell.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 09 05:34:10 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 1kQjAX-000Aba-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 05:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50084 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQjAW-0002H7-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9N-0001Pk-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9N-0005UI-4v; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9L-0004Dp-Qf; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= on Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:27:11 +0100) 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:257246 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. ]]] > "Hey, did you know Emacs has manuals? They're really good! > There's THIS manual that teaches how to use Emacs, its > keys and stuff, and there THIS manual which teaches how > to program for Emacs, so you can make your own extensions." The way we do this now is with the splash screen. Some people seem to think that that drives users away. I can't understand why anyone would be driven away by this, but that doesn't prove they are wrong. But is there a better way to do this? -- 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)