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 19:07:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <7e4qf7yfgh.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <7er7ibwmvj.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> 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 1111255703 29516 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 18:08:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:08:23 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCiMy-00088T-M8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:08:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCidh-0007LW-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:25:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9EGqVzZOPJF34TsvHVPUaQ.domitilla.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:05:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129420 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:24975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24975 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:45:20 +0100, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrot= e: > > everyone finds their own reason. though you can endeavor to be > entertaining, you cannot make people see what they do not wish to see.= > for example, in this thread, i have tried to choose a partially aligne= d > position in hopes of obliquely redirecting your enthusiasm, but i have= > failed. now i go do other things... Okay. My enthusiasm has vanished, BTW. This all thread was just a sudden, = half-baked idea. Reading all the answers I have a more thorough = understanding of the situation. The development resources available for = = Emacs are scarce and the idea has no obvious benefits, so now I too go a= nd = do other things... :) -- = Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/