From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Casting as wide a net as possible Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:15:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <39ab27e0-a420-4083-ab2d-d0f4228b4216@default> References: <> <> <> <<83a8pi9l6o.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449774950 1500 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2015 19:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, john@yates-sheets.org To: Eli Zaretskii , John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 20:15:37 2015 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 1a76gg-0006Jx-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:15:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76ge-0004av-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:15:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76gZ-0004ag-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76gY-0003vI-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:18769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76gS-0003tU-5x; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBAJFEAM008228 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:15 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBAJFE5I022292 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:14 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBAJFElw020995; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:14 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83a8pi9l6o.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:196049 Archived-At: > I think we should also mention the huge number of applications and > packages included or available out there. I don't think there's a > computing related job that Emacs does not already do, given the right > packages are installed. >=20 > Also, the fact that it presents more or less the same behavior on all > supported platforms (modulo some system-specific features on each > platform). +1 to both points. The latter is less obvious, IMO.