Re: Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:09:30 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> >> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:27:39 +0100
>> >> 
>> >> Reviewing the Emacs website, and previous discussions on this list below
>> >> (admittedly not recent, but still relevant).  It seems important to add
>> >> some text on Lisp which is not currently there, as per ideas of RMS and
>> >> Eli summarised below.
>> >
>> > Why is this important?
>> 
>> It appeared to be an outstanding documentation item to add to the
>> website, using the summary text written from RMS.
>> 
>> I personally believe it is important and useful in the context of an
>> introduction to Emacs such as the website.  For new users, or indeed
>> new contributors, Emacs Lisp may appear an intriguing choice, and that
>> summary offers a compelling reason for Lisp.
>
> It is hard to find a good place there to talk about these aspects.
> The site introduces Emacs as an editor, and describes its important
> features.  Emacs being Emacs, that list is long, but far from
> comprehensive.  We could add a paragraph about Lisp there, but then
> (a) it would be most probably lost in the (quite long) introduction,
> and (b) there are many more aspects of Emacs of the same importance
> that could be added, and we must draw the line somewhere.
>
> The way the site solves this dilemma is to focus on user-facing
> features.  The fact that Emacs is written in Lisp doesn't fit, IMO.

Agree