Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > "Hey, did you know Emacs has manuals?  They're really good!
  > There's THIS manual that teaches how to use Emacs, its
  > keys and stuff, and there THIS manual which teaches how
  > to program for Emacs, so you can make your own extensions."

The way we do this now is with the splash screen.

Some people seem to think that that drives users away.  I can't
understand why anyone would be driven away by this, but that doesn't
prove they are wrong.  But is there a better way to do this?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)