From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:17:54 +0000 Organization: Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> <87mxxweqr6.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272999107 11313 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:51:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:51:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:51:47 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NDe-0002t5-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:51:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34004 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NDd-00030l-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:51:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net JlW8L0Gcw+EGPuD/b2k3HwVyHw5xvK9ugYrSLX5zxfT/zaNovT Cancel-Lock: sha1:2M+9MkxtRSaoh3R1JRn7JtBz/fI= sha1:omQzwb6QjvFwQBGhEoEvoev7KVw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177570 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73058 Archived-At: (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