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.devel Subject: Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 00:01:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> 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="102523"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: colinetnathan98@gmail.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 06:02:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jYibF-000Qav-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 06:02:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58130 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYibE-0003vC-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYia2-0002Uj-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYia0-0008OX-Uc; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYiZt-0004R7-NI; Wed, 13 May 2020 00:01:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Tue, 12 May 2020 09:04:45 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250084 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. ]]] > > Do Emacs's current competitors have the same capabilities? > They have pretty much everything but "self-documenting", which should > maybe be referred as "self-retrospecting" feature. Do people think it is desirable to delete most of that intro text? It is uder 15 lines; perhaps it is harmless to keep it. -- 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)