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diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm index 53ec9a04b7..181e2c47ee 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm @@ -89,20 +89,13 @@ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/") (synopsis "The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor") (description - "GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its -core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp -programming language with extensions to support text editing. - -The features of GNU Emacs include: content-sensitive editing modes, -including syntax coloring, for a wide variety of file types including -plain text, source code, and HTML; complete built-in documentation, -including a tutorial for new users; full Unicode support for nearly all -human languages and their scripts; highly customizable, using Emacs -Lisp code or a graphical interface; a large number of extensions that -add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news -reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these -extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available -separately.") + "Emacs is an extensible and highly customizable text editor. It is +based on an Emacs Lisp interpreter which has extensions to support text +editing. Due to its unique structure, it can be configured in an infinite +multitude of ways, which has given rise to a vast array of packages that have +been written for it that do everything from working as an email client to +communicating online via IRC or XMPP. Emacs is fully self-documenting and it +features full Unicode support for nearly every human language.") (license gpl3+))) |