From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87sk3qow66.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278863409 19330 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 15:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 17:50:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXyn6-0004bB-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:50:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXyn6-0005sd-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41521 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXyn0-0005sC-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXymz-0007ki-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po41.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.98]:38894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXymx-0007kK-QS; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from furry ([209.101.38.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po41.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o6BFnrXJ030376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15B13C011; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:01:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127054 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: >> Also, one advantage of Eclipse's GUI interface is that it shows you a >> lot of features when they might be useful. So you don't have as much >> to learn and remember. > > I guess it would be much more easy to do that if Emacs could use for > example wxWidgets. You're just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks, without stopping to consider whether what you're saying makes sense. wxWidgets (which is just another graphical toolkit) has nothing to do with what you're replying to: >> shows you a lot of features when they might be useful. So you don't >> have as much to learn and remember.