Package: emacs Some emacs non-users have no clue how powerful Emacs really is.
I wrote a new description for emacs. It tells more about Emacs so that more apt-cache searches will find it. The rest of this email is released to the public domain. What do you think of this description? Is it possible you could please add it to the debian/control file? (For the Emacs metapackage only, so that when people do, say, "apt-cache search IRC", Emacs will show up in the search results only once.) Cheers, --Jason Description: Extensible text editor and IDE . GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest recommended Emacs release. . Note that Emacs is not only a text editor. Emacs is also an integrated development environment (IDE). Depending on what programming languages you use, it may be able to do: . * on-the-fly background syntax checking * word completion * indenting * syntax coloring * source browsing * debugging of many programming languages . and more. (But, for certain programming languages, you may need to install supplementary add-on software.) It is uglier than the competition, and takes more time to learn, but it is extraordinarily powerful. . Emacs is also a Lisp runtime environment. . Emacs excels at working with text, and comes with dozens of full-fledged Lisp applications which make heavy use of text. These include email and IRC clients, an RSS reader, and a Unix shell. If you install evil-mode, Emacs can also emulate Vim quite well. Finally, if you like, you can also install lots of other add-ons for Emacs, such as a WYSIWYG editor for the LaTeX document markup language. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
