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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
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Mon, 05 Oct 2020 22:34:19 -0400 |
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> > > I think you are very unusual in this regard. I have a lot to do on my
> > > typical day, so every second of my time counts.
> >
> > Me, too. But looking up in the local copy of Wiktionary is faster than
> > getting a response from a web site.
> You said you'd do that even if it were longer, and my response was to
> that part only.
Sorry for confusion.
Yes, I would prefer a local dictionary to one reached across the network,
even if it were slower. There are more important things at stake.
I think I explained that before.
However, in fact, accessing my local copy is faster than accessing pages
across the network.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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