Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Major problem there are abbreviations, words, terms, that are easily
  > misunderstood by users which may cause rejections.

We can't do anything about this as a general issue.
We can change specific terms, at least in principle -- though
it can be a big hassle and doing it gently can take years.

So how about proposing, one at a time, a few changes.

  >  Example is what I have here on the mode line:

  >  -:**-

  > So that is where the misunderstoods start, with -:**- so that looks
  > like Chinese to me, even though I know what it means as experienced
  > Emacs user. But from a view point of empowering a user, I have no clue
  > how is that empowering me.

The information encoded there is very useful, so providing it
clearly does "empower the user".

Of course, there are many possible ways to present that info.

Is there a specific change you would suggest, in how to present it?
And why would it be better?

  > If I move the mouse point there to the first - I can see following
  > words inside of a tooltip:

  > Buffer coding system (multi-byte): undecided-unix
  > Mouse-1: describe coding system
  > Mouse-3: set coding system

We can easily change this.  However, a tooltip can't be very long.
Would you like to make a concrete proposal?



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