On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 01/17/2014 05:47 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Glenn Morris > > wrote: >> >> Per Starbäck wrote: >> >> > I have always thought of GNU Emacs as *the* editor in GNU, that >> is the >> > default editor. Do you think a GNU system ideally instead should >> have >> > some other ("simple") editor as the default editor? >> >> If GNU has a default editor, I guess it is the default GNOME one, >> gedit. >> It advertises itself as "aiming at simplicity and ease of use". >> >> >> Why was gedit developed? It looks advanced to me. (I have never used >> it.) Why was not Emacs used as a basis for gedit? >> > > What does C-s do in Emacs? What do most novice users expect C-s to do? In > order to use Emacs as a base for gedit, Emacs would have had to have been > warped beyond all recognition. Emacs is a great environment, but let's not > pretend that it's what users migrating from proprietary desktop operating > systems should face when trying to edit a simple cookie recipe for > themselves should have to face. > Wouldn't you still have recognized the elisp? ;-) I would have been much more comfortable with Emacs as the basis for gedit. Emacs was made to be customize-able, but somehow it still failed to form the basis for gedit. Is not that a bit unfortunate? (Maybe not, but what about the future of Emacs then?)