bug#37812: Update Emacs manual intro with more compelling features

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> The introduction to the Emacs manual says, right near the beginning:
>> "We call Emacs 'advanced' because it can do much more than simple
>> insertion and deletion of text.  It can control subprocesses, indent
>> programs automatically, show multiple files at once, and more."
>>
>> This text has been around for a long time*. Maybe it's time for an
>> update? Indenting programs automatically and showing multiple files at
>> once aren't very compelling features these days. My go-to example of a
>> remarkable Emacs-y feature is EWW, so maybe "browse the Web" could be
>> added? Or something to do with Org mode? I don't know exactly, but
>> listing "shows multiple files" as a feature is like describing someone
>> as "punctual" in a reference letter -- it could signal that the person
>> has no other important qualities.
>
> EWW and Org are very high-level Lisp applications, they aren't
> examples of basic features of Emacs as an editor.  So I'm not sure
> they are appropriate in that introductory section.

We could say that Emacs is able to edit remote files like they were
local files. I'm biased, of course :-)

Best regards, Michael.