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 21:01:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83pmfdduix.fsf@gnu.org> <86sfk7hse3.fsf@gmail.com> <8735c6tq6t.fsf@posteo.net> 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="37725"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 03:04:29 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 1ofWMG-0009ZH-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2022 03:04:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39460 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWMF-0006Bf-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWJm-0003UF-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWJl-0000Sc-OL; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:01:53 -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=z8I6VMnvxLcsDvsc9BLqy7kAYLxScee4/5phVHZXfrg=; b=geeOxAvLJcxs jPEyoM1iaLKSa9t9+vyr9s+niXbcGXyEqcBNRtEG0Gj3ApnEwAUretR/S03dgBq7C1pY3LgW7qkAL 2pwZfbfmiU4AIYs0gWv2h0jQCQkkm7Rie45Sb9MtfYaSuchlmwBQyyTZC8bRTXoIn/SDZN8kYhiPS Zgyen55bHnr5zO1RS8x5EDrxPXVOyWI65XHXUFZs/rj1b2Uc0JTO+EdP/wQFmaW35KBlLgZeSPpmg mjV+/HTV8q5gD5ySITBv2I2ZIqKyq2ZquUicLWH9avGFe7ivPr2d18UjaUZt2GDCOKmGWfbEc4k2i H4WPr6xwxuuzMX50pTVdpA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofWJl-0000Kt-BT; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:01:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8735c6tq6t.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 02 Oct 2022 11:34:02 +0000) 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:296823 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. ]]] > >> Can anyone suggest a way to describe the job that Eglot does, NOT > >> using technical jargon, or implementation details such as "LSP"? > Some ideas of the top of my head: > - ide-mode > - integrated-development-mode > - {smart,intelligent,clever}-mode > - programming-mode > - syntax-mode You've tried to resent descriptions which are short enough that they might serve as command names. Unfortunately, that shortness makes them less than helpful for explaining the job that Eglot does. Each of those names can fit other things in Emacs. There are other IDEs in Emacd. Thee are other things in Emacs we could call clever. There are many modes for programming. There are other features that understand program syntax, and there have been since 1976. -- 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)