From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:17:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38w9gsih9.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ks6dnQ5K7-pksjbWnZ2dnUVZ8oidnZ2d@posted.visi
(anonymous) wrote:
> [...]
> Maybe you're motivated to track down what I've done in free
> software, and what documentation I've created. But I can't
> do it all. I appreciate the work other determined people
> put in on emacs (and other free software) and documentation,
> but it's not immune to criticism and suggestion. Otherwise
> how will we improve things?
> We're colleagues here, and we're all in the same bus. Let's
> not browbeat one another, and let's not deceive ourselves.
> emacs is The One True Editor. It's a work of genius, and
> I've written about why that is. But I wish it had better
> documentation.
For someone who gloats about his own documentation successes
which I'm not motivated to track down you have marvellously
bad communication skills to get your point across.
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 19:02 Failing to see the allure of Emacs Daniel
2010-03-21 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-21 20:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-21 21:00 ` akaiser
2010-03-21 21:26 ` Daniel
2010-03-21 22:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-22 4:05 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-21 22:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-23 17:22 ` akaiser
2010-03-23 17:52 ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-23 19:10 ` akaiser
2010-03-23 19:32 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-23 23:00 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-24 21:40 ` Tim X
2010-03-24 22:00 ` akaiser
2010-03-25 0:28 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-25 1:03 ` Jay Belanger
2010-03-25 1:27 ` despen
2010-03-25 8:42 ` Tim X
2010-03-25 9:19 ` akaiser
2010-03-25 10:01 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-25 10:09 ` akaiser
2010-03-27 20:59 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-04-07 5:36 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-25 9:41 ` akaiser
2010-03-25 12:17 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2010-03-25 12:24 ` akaiser
2010-05-04 19:03 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.28.1272999835.29092.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-05 7:15 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-05 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 12:45 ` Jay Belanger
2010-03-25 18:31 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-25 14:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-25 14:49 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-26 4:14 ` Galen Boyer
2010-05-05 17:27 ` Joel J. Adamson
2010-03-21 21:02 ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-21 22:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-21 22:35 ` B. T. Raven
2010-03-21 22:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-22 0:21 ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-22 4:45 ` B. T. Raven
2010-05-22 2:38 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-03-21 22:58 ` John Bokma
2010-04-20 13:04 ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-20 17:15 ` Andreas Politz
2010-04-20 17:34 ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-21 14:26 ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-20 17:36 ` Glenn Morris
2010-04-21 14:31 ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-21 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-22 15:27 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-04-20 22:37 ` Tim X
2010-03-21 22:41 ` despen
2010-03-22 11:59 ` Stefan Kamphausen
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