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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:250102 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > > Do Emacs's current competitors have the same capabilities? > > They have pretty much everything but "self-documenting", which should > > maybe be referred as "self-retrospecting" feature. > > Do people think it is desirable to delete most of that intro text? > It is uder 15 lines; perhaps it is harmless to keep it. I don't think it is very important issue. It is normal to have a bit longer introductorty text/description about application. It just does not need to take screen estate on the welcome screen maybe? By the way, I probably wouldn't try to identify Emacs as just a text editor longer. Personally I see Emacs as en extensible platform, or system (not in a sense of that joke of operating system), a tool, or whatever one might wish to call it. I think it has developed and become usefull much more then just as a text editor. Also I think it might help if Emacs developed even further in that direction, as a "multi-tool/swiss army knife" of human-computer interaction? I don't use other text editors, so I really don't know how good they are at other tasks then just text editing. I usually just take a look for the curiosity sake when a new editor/IDE becomes popular, and then I usually realize Emacs already has everything I need and just uninstall the new thing.