From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19139: [PATCH] * etc/emacs.appdata.xml: Extend the description Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:16:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87d03uhpmz.fsf@gnus.org> References: <1416583971-8733-1-git-send-email-zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33789"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Petr Hracek , Richard Hughes , 19139@debbugs.gnu.org To: Zbigniew =?UTF-8?Q?J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 13 11:17:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k69ME-0008ei-Q7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:17:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k69MD-0005q5-R7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k69M6-0005pc-Dx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k69M6-000630-5A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k69M5-0004W6-W8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:17:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19139 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 19139-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19139.159731021917253 (code B ref 19139); Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19139) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Aug 2020 09:16:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46896 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k69M3-0004U3-JL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:54884) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k69M0-0004Nx-NR for 19139@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:16:58 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID :In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=j5ZeZp7Pqoo0SFwLZ92+n8bOqpscjoUCqSxCyTP8rfs=; b=gcLVKxUEJkgA5qu6r1iWtZ4xFq FW+YeiyTFKX+jHUyBW7q3kHNB0hGmczwd+Y4yP0W+aDEtVCUGVBkK8XgQU5P1B/Lbbw4g8iyiNg7P 8TsKC4OVa0QggKAA06zJcxLuahRXZOFNFCTzL48Gm5smK3LhHTxrWor24da6gltQsyck=; Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=xo) by quimby with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k69Li-0004N0-0r; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:16:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1416583971-8733-1-git-send-email-zbyszek@in.waw.pl> ("Zbigniew =?UTF-8?Q?J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?="'s message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:32:51 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:184970 Archived-At: (This was posted five years ago, but unfortunately got no attention at the time.) Zbigniew J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek writes: > This extends the description to be easier to understand for > users who have no idea what emacs is, and are trying to pick > out an editor out of a list. Therefore it concentrates less > on lisp and extensibility, but more on features and functionality > and describes them more verbosely. > > There are also more screenshots, showing actual use, so people > can see the editor in action in various modes. I'm not sure that we can actually include any screenshots in this file? It would be brittle to refer to external images, anyway... > - An extensible text editor > + Edit text files, view pictures and binary files I'm not sure that's a more understandable description... > - GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor - and more. > - At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp > - programming language with extensions to support text editing. > + Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless > + editor. It is used primarely to edit text, including text > + documents, source code of programs, web pages and XML documents, > + but can also be used to display and edit binary files. (etc) I actually the original text here -- I'm not sure "modeless" is a selling point, especially as you can just switch evil mode on and get a modeful editor. And so on -- the original text isn't perfect, but I think it's OK, so I'm closing this bug report. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no