From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to request changes in Emacs Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <30addebe-999b-c1cc-a8d8-27aba3fac566@gmx.com> <4a1188f8-9864-54c0-ae6f-5f32102d9757@gmx.com> <874kn2sdss.fsf@iki.fi> <20201011103235.GA28425@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201011182550.GN2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201013045917.GB31408@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19125"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: abrochard@gmx.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 06:01:53 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 1kTGwC-0004td-Le for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:01:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60894 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTGwB-0000JN-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTGue-0007uw-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTGue-0004bn-2j; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTGuQ-0004Vx-PI; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201013045917.GB31408@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:59:17 +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:257764 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. ]]] > The item "Send Bug Report" could be placeholder for something like > "Tell us how to improve" which would expand in more submenu options, > something like: I guess so. Perhaps it should be renamed to "Give Feedback." I always find submenus inconvenient to select from; am I the only one? Is it because I rarely do that? > - Send Bug Report > - Suggest Emacs improvements > - Send email to Help GNU Emacs I suggest Mail a question to help-gnu-emacs. > - Join the Help GNU Emacs mailing list > - Leave Help GNU Emacs mailing list I think the last two are not needed. If a user finds out about help-gnu-emacs, perse can decide to join. Also, that command could display, in some way, guidance on how to subscribe or unsubscribe. Having fewer options could permit a more convenient interface for choosing an option. -- 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)