From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390003876 32544 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 00:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , rms@gnu.org, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Per =?utf-8?Q?Starb=C3=A4ck?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 01:11:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVS-0001oO-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:11:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVR-0006bm-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVN-0006bh-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVM-0000S9-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVM-0000Rv-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4JVK-0001Pl-3h; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:11:14 -0500 X-Spook: Fedayeen Putin BLU-97 A/B Baranyi eternity server USCODE X-Ran: NT%Xqm5VmD8]]'-WF)DZ=)wMW3v.`DmH'^3ab$JBBoEn4r/6k`.P-K$XB_Hlb\z'ff)dik X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168643 Archived-At: Per Starb=C3=A4ck wrote: > I have always thought of GNU Emacs as *the* editor in GNU, that is the > default editor. Do you think a GNU system ideally instead should have > some other ("simple") editor as the default editor? If GNU has a default editor, I guess it is the default GNOME one, gedit. It advertises itself as "aiming at simplicity and ease of use".