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28.0.50; About Emacs, shall be descriptive and point to Info file

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Message #11 received at 43636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43636: 28.0.50; About Emacs, shall be descriptive and point
 to Info file
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:52:15 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-09-27 09:39]:
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:39:48 +0200
> > 
> > One basic example is that the page does not tell to user that Emacs is
> > editor. So the "About Emacs" is not straight to the point to tell what
> > Emacs is.
> 
> What would you suggest to say there?  Emacs is not just an editor, but
> OTOH whatever we want to say we need to say succinctly, so as not to
> overflow the single line we have for that.

That is good question how to formulate the designation for
characteristics that is not only the text editor.

For me, it is ready user interface that I use to manage the database
and collect information, yet all those functions are still text editor
functions. It is viewing images, PDF, epub, djvu files, it is much
more than text editor.

That is important point that shall be presented.

For me it is: general computing environment

Jean

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