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: Renaming eglot -- or at least add an alias? Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83pmfdduix.fsf@gnu.org> <86sfk7hse3.fsf@gmail.com> <8735c6tq6t.fsf@posteo.net> <87r0zq2uea.fsf@posteo.net> <94ea772e-fc23-9617-6722-e6dbae911606@inventati.org> <87r0zqj926.fsf@mail.jao.io> 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="30890"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 03:03:16 2022 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 1ofWL6-0007oX-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2022 03:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37632 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWL4-00059f-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWIc-00033G-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWIc-0000Fq-0Q; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ZXe9433/iGvB14ItihsBAPPDM56Qp9hGY/B+VRAt5UM=; b=dfwxoXzrcgzf NV1Jh5G2knlWHbc6F/DYSkSG1BWRuGmHacBVnaDJi02OJkKCOZleEAcIzf0jKELvsOLgsHUek4tdO VnQr/rrhVOBzneavpyK1bQ5z4LCXGYj2lD0N1Uw97iwn5wJjtv7F5i2m58eGPL8Vh3YpIz5pnnamh 2sHfRHX8Fstct0nGSwz9LOVWHxs/9MoNLXs3y2AT03Eu3SFJWIBEveFaAGrJEqonDGW2gRSvtLswH ogUh5UEHa+KoPk4k5al3ZmZCEVM06oL7QPDSsoBD+Y5GX8t4IZgn95deEz4EKICo0f5b4a7TuffaD DvVgWnJ+OG0GuRYmpQJ/+A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWIa-0005KD-Ur; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r0zqj926.fsf@mail.jao.io> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:296821 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. ]]] > FWIW, let me mention that i absolutely agree with you, for essentially > the same reasons as you, and also: > - using a search engine to get help about something not working for > 'eglot' is much easier than any of the "discoverable" alternatives; We should try harder to find clearer alternatives to consider, before conclusing it can't be done. > - original names are part of the joy of programming, There is plenty of other scope for that. Certain aspects of the user interface are important for users, and we need to give that priority. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)