From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877gact76s.fsf@gnu.org> <34c8c13b-c5c6-4e5a-9248-b09d5d1936da@default> <87eh4hkq6c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390048473 19930 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2014 12:34:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: per@starback.se, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 18 13:34:41 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 1W4V6m-0001Mn-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:34:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4V6m-0005KG-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4V6h-0005HO-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4V6g-0005PV-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4V6g-0005PP-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4V6e-0002uB-Kw; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:34:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:47:40 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168674 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Why was gedit developed? It looks advanced to me. (I have never used it.) Why was not Emacs used as a basis for gedit? I don't know why gedit was developed, but I'd guess it was intended to be 100% as simple as the editors of otherGUI systems. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.