Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

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Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Can your response be summarized like this?
>>
>> "Let's keep doing the same thing we're doing now
>> and get the same result we've been getting for decades."
>
> No, that's a complete misreading! And in any case, Emacs has
> grown and developed over the years, and become ever more
> powerful. That's positive change with positive results.
>
> I perhaps wasn't clear enough about saying that of course more
> high-quality documentation would be a good thing, that more
> clarity would be a good thing, and that easing the learning
> curve would be a good thing. (That's not to say that there
> isn't already a lot of good documentation available, although
> perhaps scattered about.)
>
> The other side of that, though, is that I wouldn't like to see
> Emacs turned into some bloated monster. It's large enough as
> it is, but at least the size relates to the power. Emacs was
> never big on frills and cosmetics.
>
> Perhaps we have different concepts of what Emacs is or should
> be, and that's fine. The Emacs community is broad and a
> variety of opinions exist, as they should.
>
> I don't want Emacs to be Visual Studio. I certainly don't want
> it to be like an office suite with toolbars and ribbons filled
> with incomprehensible icons. I'm comfortable with the idea of
> putting in effort to get a lot more back in return. In turn, I
> recognize the need to keep the community active by bringing in
> new people. It's a balancing act but if we don't stay true to
> the core concepts of Emacs, which to me are unrivaled power
> and flexibility with a minimalist, unobtrusive interface,
> I think we will have gone in an unfortunate direction.

Wow, really i like Bob's thought^^^

Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee

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