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Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
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Chiron |
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Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer |
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:58:25 GMT |
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Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) |
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:15:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> Chiron <chiron613.no.spam.@no.spam.please.gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:10:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>>> From: Chiron <chiron613.no.spam.@no.spam.please.gmail.com> Date: Sat,
>>>> 21 Apr 2012 12:43:45 GMT
>>>>
>>>> In what way do the maintainers of emacs benefit from having more
>>>> users?
>>>
>>> If you ever maintained a package that others used, you must know that
>>> satisfying your users is a very powerful incentive. Frankly, I'm
>>> surprised to see this question asked at all.
>>
>> Well, I'm just going by the behavior of the current maintainers. They
>> aren't making the changes that people seem to want
>
> You're making that up right?
>
> Every one of the maintainers works on something someone wants. With a
> little reflection on your part, you'll understand why this is a truism.
>
> Xah has a point, users and especially new users stumble on the scratch
> buffer. All Emacs asks is that it's users be smart enough to read the
> little blurb there and ignore the buffer.
>
> But so far, I don't see a lot of people coming up with good alternative
> designs. At least the mention of lisp in the blurb gives new users an
> idea what language they need to use to modify things.
OK, I give up. For some reason, I'm just not making myself clear, and
there are too many people misunderstanding me for it to be their fault.
One or two I could understand, but... As Struther Martin might say,
"what we got heyah is failyuh to communicate."
I can't think of how to properly express my opinion so that it is
understood. Since I'm not particularly attached to this opinion - which
may very well be incorrect to begin with - I won't continue to belabor it.
--
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
-- Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, (continued)
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Joost Kremers, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Jambunathan K, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/21
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- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Joe Corneli, 2012/04/21
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- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
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- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Dan Espen, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer,
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- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/21
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- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Chiron, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Dan Espen, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Bastien, 2012/04/21
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Joost Kremers, 2012/04/23
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, rusi, 2012/04/24
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Richard Riley, 2012/04/24
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, ken, 2012/04/24
- Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/04/25