From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PT Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:15:48 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87hdj7ik8m.fsf@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111256015 30332 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 18:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:13:34 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCiRz-0000EP-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:13:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCiij-0007x4-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:30:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!feeder.xsnews.nl!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9EGqVzZOPJF34TsvHVPUaQ.domitilla.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:13:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129423 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24978 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24978 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:05:29 GMT, Shawn Betts = wrote: > > Are you suggesting that Emacs become more palatable for companies? How= > would that benefit Emacs? So you'd have a bunch of fools getting paid > to add ghastly features to Emacs that only a pointy haired boss would > like? Not necessarily. It is also possible that if a company has a product and= = sees value in Emacs then it develops the necessary support packages for = = Emacs using its own resources. For example, Ericsson created a programming language (Erlang) for which = = the default IDE is Emacs: http://www.erlang.org/faq/x652.html#AEN691 This is useful and makes Emacs more valuable (one more supported languag= e). -- = Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/