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From: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:55:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ef4qna01.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834l5m9b27.fsf@gnu.org>


On Wed, May 22 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think there might be some over-reaction here.  No one reprimanded
> you for bringing up this suggestion.  What happened is that Richard
> expressed his opinion about the suggested feature, that's all.  I'm
> sure you will agree that some suggestions which Stefan and myself
> solicited will cause objections and disagreements.  That's entirely
> normal and should be expected.
>
> Let's continue discussing this issue until we understand the balance
> of the different opinions about your proposal.


            Emacs, a play by Bertolt Brecht
            -------------------------------

Emacs:  Please proffer your suggestions on how Emacs could be
        improved, for we wish to attract new users!

Me:     As a comparatively new user, I remember when learning Emacs
        I found this part ugly and confusing. Here is a suggestion
        from such a perspective on how it could be improved.

Emacs:  It seems impossible that a new user would find that part
        ugly or confusing. It is unthinkable that it would be
        improved.

                    ~ fin ~


Thanks for the response. Please don't consider this as my proposal, I
don't really want to keep debating whether I found something
ugly/confusing or not. It's just a thing left in the Emacs Suggestion
Box. Do with what you will.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-22  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20  3:03 Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20  3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 15:44   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-20  8:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 13:25   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:02     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 14:26       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 16:08         ` Ken Olum
2019-05-20 23:19   ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:06     ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21  2:22       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-21  2:39         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21 20:19       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-22  2:46         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22  7:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22  8:55             ` Paul W. Rankin [this message]
2019-05-22 15:57               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 16:13                 ` 조성빈
2019-05-22 16:13               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 22:40               ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-20  8:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 13:35   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 13:47     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 14:18       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:48         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 15:25     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 23:21       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:34         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 16:14 ` Sam Steingold

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