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Comment by nektro | Hacker News Reader

title should include "in Emacs"

Given how powerful Emacs is and how important it has been for my computing over the past four decades, I think it would be more useful to me for people to label all non-emacs articles [Not Emacs]

Emacs is relatively obscure now. It is most practical to assume that all editor-related articles are about Visual Studio Code unless indicated otherwise, since a majority of developers use that. Vim if the article concerns in-terminal editor use.

sar·casm

noun: sarcasm; plural noun: sarcasms

the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

"his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment"

his voice hardened... I didn't hear that in the comment. Maybe /s at the end of the comment would have helped missing out on the body language or verbal queues.

I think adding "in Emacs" to the title of an article published on Mastering Emacs Dot Org might be a bit redundant.

Is everyone supposed to comprehend the domain name of the post?

Scrolled over the title (thought it was some programming algorithm concept) and then by chance I've read the site name saying it's about Emacs which prompted me to open the discussion.

Maybe on some setups the site name is not as easily visible as the title?

some times a bit of redundancy doesn't hurt

What’s visible on the HN page is “masteringemacs”, which is just nonobvious enough to parse (“master in <whatever>”) that it doesn’t register.

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