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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250723 Archived-At: On 18.05.2020 06:53, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > The idea that occurs to me is to make M-x load-package tell them, > > > occasionally. Perhaps the first time each user runs it. > > > Perhaps once a year after that. > > > The first time it is run sounds fine to me. "A years later" sounds more > > puzzling. Although it all depends on what we actually want to write there. > > The idea is that it would somehow record the date when it shows you > the explanation. For the following year, it would not show the > explanation again. After that, the next use would show the > explanation again. For the following year, it would not show the > explanation again. I got that. > The idea is to remind you occasionally but avoid doing that so often > that you would be annoyed. Probably not too annoying, yes. But the info has to be really important that we'd tell it our users every year. > > If there was a more prominent place where Emacs introduced the users to > > ELPA (say, Getting Started guide, the tutorial, or the startup screen), > > some extra explanation could also be there. > > I agree, mostly. > > The explanation does not need to be in the startup screen, where there > is no space for it. Rather, the startup screen would tell you to run > load-package, and load-package the first time would show you this > explanation. 'M-x list-packages', you mean. The startup screen might be too cramped, indeed. The other options could be better, though.