Some textual changes to the Emacs website

Some textual changes to the Emacs website

[Artur Malabarba]

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WRT the contents of this page:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

On 29 Nov 2015 10:11 pm, "Nicolas Petton" <nicolas@petton.fr> wrote:
> > Are you taking suggestions on content changes?
>
> Not at this point (well, you can send your suggestions anyway, I'll keep
> them for later).

I suggest we improve the following sentence:
> Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety
of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML.

"Content-sensitive editing modes" is cryptic even to me. I would just use
"Specialized support" or "Specialized functionality" (I actually don't like
the word specialised here, but I'm drawing blank on something better).

Also "a variety of" is one hell of an understatement. I think I'd say
"Dozens of" (or are we in the hundreds?).

On another sentence. "A large number of extensions that add other
functionality," sounds like addons you have to download or install somehow.
But it's actually referring to builtin stuff like org mode and gnus.
How about "An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing,"?

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Re: Some textual changes to the Emacs website

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> "Content-sensitive editing modes" is cryptic even to me. I would just use
> "Specialized support" or "Specialized functionality" (I actually don't like
> the word specialised here, but I'm drawing blank on something better).

Or "Content-aware editing", or "Content-specialized editing". Something that
indicates that what the data *means* changes how Emacs presents it, and the
options you have for manipulating it.

John

Re: Some textual changes to the Emacs website

[Nicolas Petton]

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John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> Or "Content-aware editing", or "Content-specialized editing". Something that
> indicates that what the data *means* changes how Emacs presents it, and the
> options you have for manipulating it.

Thanks John, I'll review and improve the content of the website in a
second step.

Nico

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