From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some developement questions Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:40:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnxsy8dp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org> <8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org> <871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83y3cu7t9j.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg8t2ki9.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <20180827015422.lcq44zvsjffeau4j@Ergus> <83a7p76f5e.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg8p9o6y.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83pnxx1foj.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1o1a06q.fsf@russet.org.uk> <877ek1ql6u.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <19f783eb-a688-2a69-e209-ea161177c8cb@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536115107 4275 195.159.176.226 (5 Sep 2018 02:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 02:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 04:38:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNi2-00011Q-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNk9-0005dV-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNk0-0005c9-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNjz-0006OL-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60399) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNjz-0006Nz-66; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2201 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fxNjy-0006aP-PH; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:40:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <19f783eb-a688-2a69-e209-ea161177c8cb@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:13:36 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229277 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:13:36 -0700 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > A little bit of marketing would help here. The initial contents of *scratch*, > the mode line, and the minibuffer need not be monospaced, and would all benefit > from a better font. What newbies see when they start Emacs is not *scratch*, it's the splash image and the welcome buffer. And that one doesn't use monospaced font.