Some emacs non-users have no clue how powerful Emacs really is.

I wrote a new description for emacs.  It tells more about Emacs
so that more apt-cache searches will find it.  The rest of this email
is released to the public domain.  What do you think of this
description?  Is it possible you could please add it to the
debian/control file?  (For the Emacs metapackage only, so that
when people do, say, "apt-cache search IRC", Emacs will
show up in the search results only once.)

Cheers,
--Jason

Description: Extensible text editor and IDE
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GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest
recommended Emacs release.
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Note that Emacs is not only a text editor.  Emacs is also an integrated
development environment (IDE).  Depending on what programming
languages you use, it may be able to do:
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* on-the-fly background syntax checking
* word completion
* indenting
* syntax coloring
* source browsing
* debugging of many programming languages
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and more.  (But, for certain programming languages, you may need to install
supplementary add-on software.)  It is uglier than the competition, and takes
more time to learn, but it is extraordinarily powerful.
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Emacs is also a Lisp runtime environment.
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Emacs excels at working with text, and comes with dozens of full-fledged
Lisp applications which make heavy use of text.  These include
email and IRC clients, an RSS reader, and a Unix shell.  If you install
evil-mode, Emacs can also emulate Vim quite well.  Finally, if you like,
you can also install lots of other add-ons for Emacs, such as a WYSIWYG
editor for the LaTeX document markup language.

This report is a revised version of Bug#413970, which I filed about a
decade ago and which nobody ever replied to.

It would be handy if someone would reply to this report, even just to
let me know what they think of my proposed new description.  :)

Agreed, I think this longer and more informative description is an
excellent idea. This should be rectified:

$ apt-cache search 'integrated development' | wc -l

102

$ apt-cache search 'integrated development' | egrep -i emacs | wc -l

0