From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: 19603@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:02:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21tmw9m76.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnm0zhrl.fsf@gmail.com>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:21:02 +0100 Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:
TV> Now emacs packages are widely used,
TV> it would be great to improve the startup message of emacs with a link
TV> about how to quickly setup package.el to be usable.
TV> I have regularly people complaining "It is not working" because
TV> they install packages through package.el and they don't add in their
TV> init file `package-initialize', or they try compiling autoload file
TV> etc... I have provided a link in my Readme file to redirect to a brief
TV> documentation on how to use all this, but apparently many don't read
TV> this...
I bring this up every 2 years or so; it's time...
In Gnus and Emacs we have assistant.el, which could be used to guide the
user through the necessary steps to get packages working and then go
straight to `list-packages'. Maybe it could be useful here?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-15 6:21 bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-15 14:02 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2015-01-15 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-15 15:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2018-02-17 14:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-01-15 21:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-15 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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