From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:55:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo0agl6u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> <83y2l0vas0.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfgyrn57.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7rlsxpw.fsf@gnu.org> <0e3f9f50238be8a62b481f78c1d26c83@condition-alpha.com> <83d024jxex.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30063"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexander Adolf Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 14:56:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kNy8D-0007dG-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNy8C-0005pG-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNy7i-0005PZ-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNy7i-0004Ng-Kb; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3320 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kNy7K-00058l-CO; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:55:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alexander Adolf on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:40:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:256834 Archived-At: > From: Alexander Adolf > Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:40:10 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > [...] > > For example, one can assign CC Mode to the category "programming > > languages", then it will be in the same category as perl.el, python.el > > and fortran.el. > > [...] > > Where does this assignment happen, on the user's local machine or on the > package repository website (or yet another place?), what semantics are > associated with that assignment, and how are these semantics exposed to > the user? I don't know. It's the semantics you proposed, so you know what you had in mind. However, I don't see how that could matter, because the problem is a fundamental one, and doesn't depend on the semantics of the category.