From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eduardo Mercovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:50:59 -0300 Message-ID: <87pn6fmbe4.fsf@mercovich.net> References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83lfhjkq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <8620B5CD-CA92-46BF-80A8-DBE7052F4CA6@gmail.com> <87d02haj4g.fsf@mercovich.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16849"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.3.3; emacs 27.1 Cc: =?utf-8?B?R8O2a3R1xJ8=?= Kayaalp , Yuan Fu , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 16:54:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1kKNCf-0004GT-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:54:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49026 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKNCe-0005j7-2o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKNBF-0004K7-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from paulo.mayfirst.org ([162.247.75.97]:46995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKNBB-0007Ls-OE; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from paulo.mayfirst.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by paulo.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0120F3F24; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:52:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: xxxxx) with ESMTPSA id 654D83F21 In-reply-to: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Received-SPF: none client-ip=162.247.75.97; envelope-from=eduardo@mercovich.net; helo=paulo.mayfirst.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/21 10:52:32 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256289 Archived-At: Hello Drew. [...] =20 > It's been said before: Please do NOT refer to such a prepared set of > settings and packages as an Emacs "distribution".=20 Sure! Sorry I hurt your sensibilities/ideas with that particular word. I never heard those talks before, nor even knew about the issue of how they are named. > These are not distributions. Call them nearly anything but that, > please. [...] I have no problem calling them whatever you'd like, since the issue is obviously very important to you. Please, share with me your preferred term and I'll use it from now on. :) Best... PD: please keep in mind that I'm not a native English speaker, in case something seems odd in my writing.=20 --=20 eduardo mercovich Donde se cruzan tus talentos=20 con las necesidades del mundo,=20 ah=C3=AD est=C3=A1 tu vocaci=C3=B3n.=20 (An=C3=B3nimo)