From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40623: Feature Request from one of your fans Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="69858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 40623@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ram Kumar Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 15 04:56:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDk-000I4U-Qz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:56:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDj-0002KW-Tp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDa-0002IE-MC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDZ-00069P-Le for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDZ-00069L-JG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDZ-0005UG-Ir for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:56:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 02:56:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40623 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40623-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40623.158691934421058 (code B ref 40623); Wed, 15 Apr 2020 02:56:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40623) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Apr 2020 02:55:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35077 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDH-0005TZ-VB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57423) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDG-0005TN-RD for 40623@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDB-0005if-Kf; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jOYDA-0004m6-Dl; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:55:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Ram Kumar on Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:22:34 +0530) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178383 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. ]]] > I am Ramkumar from India, one of the greatest fans of GNU Emacs. The > feature i request to include is, in one word, Minimalism. > Most of the Emacs users require a minimalistic version that can handle the > text editing related stuff alone. > The version can > 1) include all text editing options, like syntax highlighting for all > codes,org-mode, buffers, splits, calculator etc .. > 2) can ignore other options like, mail, games, calendar, spreadsheet, etc.. > hence lightening it Could you explain to me how this pruned-down would be preferable for some users? If I may assume that you are one of those users, how would it be better for you? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)