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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:249945 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > > For instance at "Introduction" fairly everything in first paragraphs > > > IMHO may be dropped resp. should be moved at later sections. Copy > > > stuff below for the convenience of the reader here. > > Perhaps there is no longer a need to inform the public of those > three basic capabilities of Emacs. > > Do Emacs's current competitors have the same capabilities? They have pretty much everything but "self-documenting", which should maybe be referred as "self-retrospecting" feature. They usually rely on external documentation. For the rest, they have it. Some of them are created with goal to be like Emacs, just to use more familiar scripting language then Lisp (i.e. Javascript) (VS Code, Brackets, Atom, etc).