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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list
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Pankaj Jangid |
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Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:59:03 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (darwin) |
Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> During EmacsConf 2020 it became clear that there is a sizeable number
>> of people who use Emacs outside of a programming context,
>> specifically in the Humanities, and there was support for a mailing
>> list dedicated to this group.
>>
>> The benefit of such a list would allow those using Emacs within the
>> Humanities a way to become more directly involved with the project
>> without committing to the emacs-devel or help-gnu-emacs lists, which
>> are much more programming-focused than the average Humanities user
>> may be comfortable with or interested in.
>>
>
> Like Lars, I don't see what fundamental difference of scope between
> emacs-humanities and help-gnu-emacs is. Isn't the scope of
> emacs-humanities a subset of the scope of help-gnu-emacs? If so,
> would it not be simpler to add a "[humanities]" tag (for example) to
> posts on help-gnu-emacs which might be of interest to, or are posted
> by, humanities users?
>
> Another way to ask the same question: why would this list be limited
> to "humanities"? There are people who use Emacs neither for
> programming nor for the humanities.
With all due respect for the original idea, I just want to point out
that we can also use `emacs-tangets' mailing list if the goal is not to
indulge in help or development topics.
BTW, for the admins, I went to this url to check the description of
`emacs-tangets' and found nothing there:
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, (continued)
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Leo Vivier, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Paul W. Rankin, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Michael Albinus, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Corwin Brust, 2020/11/30
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Zhu Zihao, 2020/11/29
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Richard Stallman, 2020/11/29
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/30
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/30
- Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list,
Pankaj Jangid <=
Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list, Jean Louis, 2020/11/30