Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Pascal Bourguignon]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> writes:
>>> [...]
>>> That is a possibility but obviously there are much more Japanese or
>>> French people who use their software now than then.
>>
>> Yes, applications.
>>
>>
>>> What good is a software package if it can't be used by
>>> linguistically challenged people ?
>>
>> Linguistically challenged people just cannot program.
>
> Interestingly, pretty much the only people I know without computing,
> mathematics or science backgrounds that developed admirable mastery
> with Emacs or TeX were proficient in the classics.
>
> And if you have read classical Greek, with its 3 modes, 7 tenses, 3
> numeri, 3 voices, and its complex grammatical structure that has no
> problems spreading some unsuspecting sentence across several pages, a
> sentence which, not entirely unlike a delicate spring, to a river of
> sense swilling and into a sea expelling itself, from a slow start to a
> furious - Odysseus in his ire would have been no less intimidating -
> end continously waxing will finally, after a long, but yet not to be
> compared to those of the masters who can express sentiments like "you
> two should then have started to be a little ashamed of yourself" in a
> single word by choosing all the grammatical details appropriately,
> climax come to an end which, had you not been carefully nesting and
> unnesting the twines of the silkily woven threads of language not
> unlike a stack of bee hives or perhaps the playcards of a master,
> might have been unexpected or at least no longer fathomable.

Yep.  That said, it's still advised to keep your functions within one
screen.  That is, 80x25, which you've done, so no problem.

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