From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 50936@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50936: "(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 15:15:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnVCSDMQNyjiTB52i0yaFA_Y7Y+WoEOEaCNCK7VtRmx9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mtntdizr.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > I'm not sure if the recommendation should be changed, or simply
> > amended to also mention M-x list-packages.
>
> It's okay to also mention list-packages, but if so, the text should
> explicitly say that it's for features and packages not included in
> the core distribution.
I think this sounds like the best solution.
> More importantly, I think we should seriously consider whether such
> text has its place in that section. That section is supposed to be a
> cookbook for quickly and efficiently find Emacs features, so it should
> be limited to methods and commands that accurate, in the sense that
> they don't present the user with long lists of potential hits. By
> contrast, list-packages shows a very long list of packages (more than
> 400 as of this writing), which can easily overwhelm the user. Even
> "C-h p" doesn't show such long lists (the longest has 50 items), and
> it is already too long, which is why it's the last in the list of
> recommended methods.
That's a problem, but there is IMO no way around that as long as Emacs
doesn't bundle packages like php-mode, haskell-mode, eglot or
lsp-mode, markdown-mode, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-01 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-01 11:48 bug#50936: "(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 13:15 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-10-01 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 14:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 17:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 12:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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