From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:24:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sk3qow66.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278894276 3414 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2010 00:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 02:24:34 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 1OY6ox-0005el-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:24:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY6ow-0007Bz-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43435 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY6oq-0007Be-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:24:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY6oo-0003MH-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:48238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY6oo-0003M0-Ql; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so819231ewy.0 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Gl6Nh1bwTZDKQ4gb+AZAsYS0gfPAmR5zV2E6rJcZ7+A=; b=M1V2y5a1OaTJom0RWGeqTrLvJOwiTQdCd0s5ce+drwyUhT/+kxpixOYm7MzKAeBCsr WEGfqZYzZt9CmECsdhd83c5ucPHiAP0EiADeSjI57g7lns+4hrgzgWqOxj7z6rQVBKYu bQIg/qD/BXHms9p8QjEGX6UY6Tyu/dn+dukbo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eyyU3KG9wC2Myttwcw+9AttgjCzEiLbUXAAYUcGNExAg9+e9/o0LJysOyEtAV3csZb S5bTxnBVmQlk3bsZPbECTB1Xc+XNLqNng0Lc7x+0SRd/w34o/UnjZyrV/YsjT98x7u3i hRo4257Zk9Qqm8xg5CYzQnqjU0mf/9yKYyjCE= Original-Received: by 10.213.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr9932548ebr.48.1278894261704; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.15.132 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:24:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sk3qow66.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:127075 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Chong Yidong wrote= : > 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. =C2=A0So you don't have as m= uch >>> 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. =C2=A0wxWidg= ets > (which is just another graphical toolkit) has nothing to do with what > you're replying to: I think you could write something much more useful if you tried to understand what I am saying. >>> shows you a lot of features when they might be useful. =C2=A0So you don= 't >>> have as much to learn and remember. >