On Jul 22, 1:23 am, Bastien Guerry <b...@altern.org> wrote: Xah <xah...@gmail.com> writes: On Jul 21, 11:59 am, Ben Aurel <ben.au...@gmail.com> wrote: hi This is my first post here, so I hope this is the right place for asking beginner questions. My question is simple: When I list some files in dired mode I select one file to edit. Now how can I close this ...
Sorry about the half-post. Google Groups, you are my nemesis... On Jul 22, 6:03 pm, "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 18:58, Bastien Guerry <b...@altern.org> wrote: How many users are complaining about the fact that it's not easy to open and close a file with Emacs? As long as this is not a *major* problem, let's not consider whether it'...
On Jul 22, 6:03 pm, "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 18:58, Bastien Guerry <b...@altern.org> wrote: How many users are complaining about the fact that it's not easy to open and close a file with Emacs? As long as this is not a *major* problem, let's not consider whether it's good or not to change Emacs terminology. I don't see the ...
Bastien wrote: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes: Bastien Guerry wrote: Consider this (RMS-ish) motto: "With great freedom comes great responsability, the responsability to defend and promote freedom." Did he really say that? respons-ability? ;-) [This message was generated by an outdated system.] I am not on ...
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes: Bastien Guerry wrote: Consider this (RMS-ish) motto: "With great freedom comes great responsability, the responsability to defend and promote freedom." Did he really say that? respons-ability? ;-) [This message was generated by an outdated system.] I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a ...
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes: Bastien Guerry wrote: Consider this (RMS-ish) motto: "With great freedom comes great responsability, the responsability to defend and promote freedom." Did he really say that? respons-ability? ;-) Err, no. My french sneaking in. -- Bastien
Bastien Guerry wrote: Consider this (RMS-ish) motto: "With great freedom comes great responsability, the responsability to defend and promote freedom." Did he really say that? respons-ability? ;-) I would agree. But I would add the respons-ability and responsibility do defend altruism.
Bastien Guerry wrote: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes: Bastien wrote: If Emacs implements a feature that no other editor implements then the user is usually not fussy about the learning curve. Are you sure about that? What about if the learning time is so long that it outweight the benefits of the feature the user want? Then the user...
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:49, Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> wrote: No, surely mine. I just wanted to say: if new users are not too much complaining about the terminology, let's not fix something that is not broken. OK. The trouble is, we will never now about the users that simply abandon Emacs because of the terminology. I'm not suggesting that's the only, or main, difficulty...
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:32, Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> wrote: But we're not discussing about what could have been done 20 years ago, are we? Discussing the terminology today, my point is that it might be risky to "import" some terms just because they are commonly used elsewhere. If they give the right representation of the thing they refer to, why not. Well, I'm ...
