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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:14:32 -0400 |
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> >> For the record, I have a proof-of-concept package for GNU ELPA which
> >> I call `gnu-elpa` and which just adds "most" of the autoloads found in
> >> GNU ELPA packages (along with the corresponding changes to
> >> `auto-mode-alist`), such that `M-x eglot` or opening a smalltalk file
> >> will prompt the user if they want to install the corresponding package.
It is ok to do this with GNU ELPA,
because we could move those packages into the Emacs distribution
if that ever seems advantageous for any reason.
We don't have an essential need to make a distinction between
the packages in GNU ELPA and the ones in the Emacs distinction itself.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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