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: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:06:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k11htj96.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87pnb7u70r.fsf@red-bean.com> <87y2pvrzho.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87y2pvqhuj.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnaog13i.fsf@red-bean.com> <87h7w0f03x.fsf@red-bean.com> <5bae1fd5-52ef-46f1-c728-8d5940bf5bbc@yandex.ru> <20200528205249.GC919@breton.holly.idiocy.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="118502"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cwebber@dustycloud.org, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kfogel@red-bean.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, ndame@protonmail.com To: Alan Third Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 05:07:48 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 1jeVN6-000Uim-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 05:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56510 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVN5-0000QP-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVMa-0008RX-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVMZ-00007h-1z; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVME-0003sf-4I; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:06:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200528205249.GC919@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Thu, 28 May 2020 21:52:49 +0100) 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:251601 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. ]]] > This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we > just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than > "find a file"? That would make our initial explanations more complex, and that might lead to more confusion than clarity. I think it is better to explain this wrinkle when the user encounters it, not before. -- 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)