Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:36 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
>>>>> said:

    Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    
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    Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     
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    Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. 
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    >> By the way, I probably wouldn't try to identify Emacs as just a text
    >> editor longer. Personally I see Emacs as en extensible platform,

    Richard> I designed Emacs to be a text editor.

    Richard> I am disappointed that people extend Emacs ONLY to do other 
unrelated
    Richard> jobs while NOT extending the kinds of text editing it will do.

What, specifically, is missing in that area? If youʼre talking about
WYSIWYG-related features, I have free programs that can do that, and I
donʼt use them much directly: I use emacs to generate their format,
then touch up the results afterwards.

Robert