Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:31:49 -0400
> 
> Some things don't need to sacrifice existing users for new users:
> * Having the documentation organized nicely 
> * Interactive things

Yes.  But someone has to do the work of making these happen.

> For example, when I first wrote "DEADLINE:" under a todo in
> org-mode, why couldn't there be a pop-up poining me to a tutorial on
> how to sort by deadline?
> 
> That's easier than learning the DEADLINE: syntax then
> specifically searching out a tutorial for it.
> 
> And re the Cua mode argument:
> Why not ask the user what they're used to in a wizard, that
> activates with something like M-x setup. We can learn from
> IntelliJ Community Edition here.*

Nothing in Emacs gets done because someone asks a "why not do this and
that?" question.  We don't have a means to tell some employee to do
this and that job.  For a job to get done, someone motivated enough
should sit down and do it.  The best candidate for that is whoever
raises the issue in the first place, but of course not everyone who
proposes something can actually implement it.