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: Emacs terminology (not again!?) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:47:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0442708c696bd604f034dab4 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390009705 21992 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 01:48:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Per_Starb=C3=A4ck?= , "Richard M. Stallman" , David Kastrup , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 02:48:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4L1S-00038O-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:48:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4L1R-0006mf-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4L1P-0006mZ-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4L1N-0003UE-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::233]:48381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4L1K-0003T3-1E; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id z12so5228488wgg.30 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:48:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=6D00mRV7ru/TKAfEeK8eAH/8ytGNHKtxxXHO8dLoIiU=; b=J4Ynq0r4cZPYIhf55t39hub6icxdo7rGb5Hg04bZaBTRiRP5ERLkqseAeA2krgnC4/ VJgp60u88wDJbQoeBMzSvL/Ckr89QG/8rUWVpUG9pLRuS2VpAR5BZTc9GbMff2I7ewIz r/HoRZmgF1jcFhpinZxc4v6RvuEGXHrQ51kfJecaguNV/4EqSrlbvej2Lbv/qg0YO0q/ puAlLx1EE3KnNMBQlIIvuZha/EkivZ2WY5EJT2tCFl4Vz+tVwz0H2wyOEday+8Sy0HL2 zu5spJkZuyV68HQmeRaqzr58UB9Ru87N91eKJcPEYc9YUHRHGWbX9BK9YZyjefgoewIG aIaQ== X-Received: by 10.180.105.65 with SMTP id gk1mr1036588wib.12.1390009700148; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:48:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.216.227 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:47:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::233 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168644 Archived-At: --f46d0442708c696bd604f034dab4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Per Starb=C3=A4ck 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? --f46d0442708c696bd604f034dab4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On S= at, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Glenn Morris <r= gm@gnu.org> wrote:
Per Starb=C3=A4ck 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<= br> > 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?
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