Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > No, it does not assert that.

  >   Verb: conflate  kun'fleyt

  >   Add together different elements
  >   "The colours conflate well";
  >   - blend, flux, mix, commingle, immix, fuse,
  >     coalesce, meld, combine, merge

I am surprised.  The only meaning I have ever seen
is to mistakenly identify things that are different.
If that is not what you meant, then I apologize for the mistake.

Here's what you wrote:

>   > > > Should we really conflate the set of Emacs
>   > > > users with "registered repository users"?

Can you state your intended meaning in different words?

  > If we're looking for a poll/sampling, is this a
  > helpful way to represent Emacs users in general?
  > Frankly, I don't know.  But I recognize that
  > there's a conflation - the two sets aren't the
  > same.

Each time you use the word conflate, I am unsure what meaning you have
in mind.  What operation with these two sets that you mean?  Taking
the union of them?  Treating then as intersubstitutable?  Something else?






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