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: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:36 -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="84095"; 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 Thu May 14 07:16:54 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 1jZ6Eo-000LlA-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 07:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6En-0002xY-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6Ce-0007Sp-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6Cc-00023r-RN; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6Ca-0007Jq-SY; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Wed, 13 May 2020 10:49:04 +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:250210 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. ]]] > By the way, I probably wouldn't try to identify Emacs as just a text > editor longer. Personally I see Emacs as en extensible platform, I designed Emacs to be a text editor. I am disappointed that people extend Emacs ONLY to do other unrelated jobs while NOT extending the kinds of text editing it will do. -- 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)