Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:13:50 +0100
> From: Per Starbäck <address@hidden>
> Cc: David Kastrup <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> Richard wrote:
> 
> > Emacs is never going to be as easy to learn as simple
> > editors, because ease of learning is not its priority.
> > The priority is effective editing for people willing to learn.
> > We won't sacrifice that goal for ease of learning.
> 
> I find this remark about "simple editors" interesting, not just in
> terms of Emacs, but of the whole GNU system. I have always thought
> of GNU Emacs as *the* editor in GNU, that is the default editor. Do
> you think a GNU system ideally instead should have some other
> ("simple") editor as the default editor?

That's not what Richard was saying, not at all.  There could very well
be a "simple" editor that is part of the GNU project (perhaps there is
one already).  No one said the GNU project must have only one editor.