From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?]
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:18:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gh4ts1$2ts$3@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1750.1228262967.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Xah!
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:22:01AM -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
>
>> When tech geekers speak of TeX, they often speak of in the domain of
>> mathematical knowledge presentation and publishing. In the math
>> knowledge presentation, i am a expert, and personally known that
>> <proprietary product> is a ORDER OF MAGNITUDE better than TeX.
>
> Everybody is asked not to advocate non-free products on the GNU
> mailing-lists/newsgroups, even when on-topic. There are other forums
> where one can do this (e.g. comp.emacs).
>
> Please don't do this again on help-gnu-emacs. Thanks!
>
>> Xah
I'm quite interested in this.
So one can not, for example, say "Visual Studio has this great feature Y
which is superior to Emacs function Z for the following reasons, can
anyone suggest how best to improve Emacs to reach the same level"?
Sounds a tad "non free" if you don't mind the pun.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-28 1:34 wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? David Combs
2008-11-28 1:48 ` Xah Lee
2008-11-29 12:50 ` djcb
2008-12-01 11:31 ` Sven Utcke
2008-12-01 12:29 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-12-01 14:08 ` David Hansen
2008-12-01 18:22 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-01 21:43 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.1651.1228167851.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-01 22:23 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-01 23:38 ` Timothy Murphy
2008-12-02 2:31 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-02 11:39 ` Robin Fairbairns
2008-12-03 0:23 ` Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?] Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.1750.1228262967.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-03 3:18 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2008-12-03 8:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-12-03 14:52 ` rustom
2008-12-03 15:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-03 23:17 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-05 5:48 ` Inappropriate advocacy Miles Bader
2008-12-04 1:47 ` wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Tariq
2008-12-04 2:31 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-04 13:19 ` G. A. Edgar
2008-12-04 15:35 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-04 17:35 ` Andreas Politz
[not found] ` <mailman.1607.1228134590.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-01 16:20 ` Jay Belanger
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