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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr] |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:38:06 +0100 |
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Per Starbäck <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard wrote:
>
>> Emacs is never going to be as easy to learn as simple
>> editors, because ease of learning is not its priority.
>> The priority is effective editing for people willing to learn.
>> We won't sacrifice that goal for ease of learning.
>
> I find this remark about "simple editors" interesting, not just in
> terms of Emacs, but of the whole GNU system. I have always thought of
> GNU Emacs as *the* editor in GNU, that is the default editor. Do you
> think a GNU system ideally instead should have some other ("simple")
> editor as the default editor? And that using Emacs should be an active
> choice for those who are ready to learn something more powerful? This
> is news to me in that case.
That's like music instruments that are missing notes to make them
"simpler to learn". It will always come to bite you eventually.
--
David Kastrup
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], (continued)
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Tom, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Davis Herring, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], David Kastrup, 2014/01/10
- RE: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Drew Adams, 2014/01/09
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/10
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr], Per Starbäck, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr],
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Glenn Morris, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/17
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), David Kastrup, 2014/01/18
- Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/18