From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PT Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:24:46 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <7e4qf7yfgh.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <7er7ibwmvj.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111256596 31828 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 18:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:23:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCibR-0001Hm-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:23:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCisB-0002mc-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.esat.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!213.155.197.138.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9EGqVzZOPJF34TsvHVPUaQ.domitilla.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:22:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129426 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24981 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:15:28 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> My enthusiasm has vanished, BTW. This all thread was just a sudden, >> half-baked idea. Reading all the answers I have a more thorough >> understanding of the situation. The development resources available >> for Emacs are scarce and the idea has no obvious benefits, > > It would be less exasperating conversing with you if you did not > constantly insinuate stuff and put words into one's mouth. Nobody > said that improving Emacs' appeal to newbies has no obvious benefits. It was my own conclusion after reading the answers. I don't see the = benefits anymore. > Yet you still insist on misrepresenting on what has been said. I find= > this distasteful. You're misinterpreting what I said. I'm not a native speaker. Maybe I = cannot express myself properly. Sorry about that. >> so now I too go and do other things... :) > > Probably a good idea. Thank you for your kind words. -- = Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/