From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r4ddo4yp.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87r4dbud66.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377863924 12267 80.91.229.3 (30 Aug 2013 11:58:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:58:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 13:58:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VFNLg-0006oK-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:58:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFNLg-0008B7-8A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFNLO-0008Ah-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFNLH-00035i-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFNLH-000343-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VFNLE-0006Zt-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:58:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 206-248-162-186.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.162.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:58:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-162-186.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:58:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-162-186.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3tGZHIzUEUJnt69xK61S2P4/eXY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93174 Archived-At: >> That's what is meant by self-documenting. > OK. And that's great. But, Irssi have that and - actually, that's > not uncommon at all. But perhaps Emacs implemented it in the most > exhaustive and consistent way, and that's why they push for it? It's also because Emacs introduced the notion of docstring, which is now fairly common is all programming languages (javadoc, etc...). Stefan