Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ---------------------------------------- > SIMPLE CHANGES > > In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very > easy to fix in emacs. If emacs officially adopt these changes, i think > it will make a lot people, at least programers, like emacs and choose > emacs as their text editor.
The problem with this line of thinking is that it aims to make Emacs appeal to people -- I think it is rather the other way around. Certain people appeal to Emacs: certain kinds of people like Emacs and the way it is set up, and they change it to suit their needs. Among your changes, I found none that made sense to me, a person who used Unix before Windows became widely used. For people like me, who always preferred Unix, changes like changing "buffer" to "opened file" seem inefficient and unnecessary. Sorry -- this totally falls flat. It won't make Emacs more widely used. The only thing that will make Emacs more widely used is making people aware of it; as soon as I became aware of Emacs (from reading Wikipedia, ironically), I began using it and I knew I was stuck with it. It's not even important for the survival of Emacs that it be more widely used -- it was never important in the last thirty years of its history, why should it be important now that Microsoft Word is so widely used? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
