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: (emacs) Intro [was: Making Emacs popular again with a video] Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 21:39:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <779cc2b0-c546-2a80-afd3-79f10bda1b7e@yandex.ru> 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="66498"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: excalamus@tutanota.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 30 03:40:38 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 1jeqUI-000HB4-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 03:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeqUH-0007jp-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 21:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeqTY-0007Gs-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 21:39:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeqTX-0002pN-Dv; Fri, 29 May 2020 21:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jeqTW-0003XY-Im; Fri, 29 May 2020 21:39:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 29 May 2020 00:40:01 -0700) 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:251635 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. ]]] > > Maybe we should gloss over the distinction in the manual text > > and include a separate history node? > I don't see why not. The only problem I know of is that the manual is > already very long in printed form. Keeping the manual shorter (and thus cheaper) is of practical importance. We can publish articles about history and other interesting side points in gnu.org or along with the distribution. We need to keep the manual short. -- 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)