From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:56:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <> <<83poye9pms.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449773840 15336 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2015 18:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 19:57:07 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a76On-0004l7-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:57:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76Om-000743-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76OS-00070P-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76OS-0006dz-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:56:44 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a76ON-0006d4-Lf; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBAIucoo021911 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:56:38 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBAIubt6011664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:56:37 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBAIuZeh025816; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:56:35 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83poye9pms.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196045 Archived-At: > > For those who are interested (eg the 13 year old Drew postulated) > > there are many easily discovered resources on the web describing > > Emacs, Lisp, eLisp, etc. We could easily include on our site a > > curated list of links to the best of such resources. If we feel > > that there does not yet exist a sufficiently effusive description > > of (e)Lisp we can write one and link to it. >=20 > We don't want anything even close to a description, we want just a > hint, to lure them to learn more. There's no need in external links > for that, we could manage such a short passage ourselves. At least we > should try. Agreed. And it's not just about luring potentially interested users. It's about describing Emacs - its most important features. No need to glorify anything; it is sufficient to point out how Emacs is different. This description of Emacs includes what you can do with it, at the most general level. And this most general level of what-you-can-do includes some Lisp features. It does not mean just pointing out that Emacs has lots of "plug-ins" etc.