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: GNU Emacs raison d'etre - 1981-ish version Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83eerl33j5.fsf@gnu.org> 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="76283"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, excalamus@tutanota.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 16 06:21:22 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 1jZoK9-000Jl1-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 06:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoK8-0003vs-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoIP-00013K-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoIO-0004me-V8; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoIM-0004iq-CS; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:19:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83eerl33j5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 15 May 2020 13:18:06 +0300) 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:250451 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. ]]] > > "website so and so says this, but my Emacs behaves differently", where > > the solution is to consult the documentation inside emacs. It appears > > people have become conditioned to doing a web search for manuals, Perhaps we should make a page and a canned response, "Check the Emacs manuals before you believe what other people's web site say about Emacs." And publicize that in lots of ways. -- 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)