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Re: instead of gnus-cloud.el
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: instead of gnus-cloud.el |
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Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:44:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Thus, I was perturbed to see that a file in Gnus grants legitimacy
> to the term "cloud" by using it. The name ought to be changed.
The name is humorous -- a parody of the term "cloud computing".
> I was going to suggest another name based on what the file does.
> But I can't figure out what it does. The only explanation is one
> line at the top of the file, and it doesn't say much. That is
> bad maintenance.
It's a feature under development, and is not used by anybody, so
documentation of this non-existing feature would be premature. Up until
very recently we weren't quite sure what it was going to look like, but
it's shaping up now.
It's a mechanism for storing data (in the first implementation, Gnus
data) on your local IMAP server, so that you can access your Emacs
environment from all the machines you use Emacs.
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