Emanuel Berg writes:
No, I think the frustration, IIRC, ws because
(1) No one else was enthusiastic about making Elisp better, in
part for its own sake, to make och try to make Emacs a Lisp
powerhouse up there with CL and Clojure (and others); and
To my mind that's a bit like sayin
Madhu writes:
* Richard Stallman :
[...]
Just talking about some nonfree software is not promoting it
unless you encourage or direct people to use it. For instance,
mentioning Windows or MacOS as part of making GNU Emacs run on
them, or saying that it does, is not promoting those system
Jean Louis writes:
[...]
The Emacs Lisp manual is meant for everyone, but if it could
solve all the issues people have with Emacs, then there wouldn't
be a need for the help email list where people ask for
assistance.
The Emacs Lisp manual is written for everyone, but its writing
style is
Jean Louis writes:
[...]
You have problems understanding my viewpoint; for some reason,
you dismiss the notion that people may have different levels of
learning.
I do not. I've already asked you to be less sure of yourself.
In a similar way to that event where you couldn't understand my
p
Jean Louis writes:
* Joel Reicher [2025-01-03 03:25]:
[...]
If the problem is in understanding the manual, then my very
strong opinion is that the question should be asked in terms of
the manual.
This does three things:
1) Demonstrates good faith on the part of the enquirer that
they
Van Ly via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the
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writes:
It is very good opinion, but people are not programmed robots.
People vary in their cognitive styles.
And a person may find on reading the manual that it does not serve
their style,
Jean Louis writes:
* Van Ly via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside
the scope of other Emacs mailing lists
[2025-01-03 17:32]:
It is very good opinion, but people are not programmed robots.
People vary in their cognitive styles.
Well expressed.
It is a truism, and irrele
Jean Louis writes:
* Joel Reicher [2025-01-11 17:16]:
[...]
Here’s a corrected version of your text:
I'm not sure that what I said needed correcting, and even if it did, the
corrections would need to be faithful to my original intent.
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