From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 08:07:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87set4jxsa.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87plodsjsd.fsf@web.de> <865xq14dwp.fsf@gnu.org> <87ldyxclix.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29877"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:klJqjC5qXo98vbNT1BIv0YNnbOI= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 10 08:16:43 2024 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 1symTb-0007b9-9u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 08:16:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1symTD-0008Gq-3q; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1symLE-0005ix-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1symLA-0007oL-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1symL7-0009cN-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 08:07:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:16:13 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:324474 Archived-At: Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> My analysis is different. Emacs lacks volunteers who'd sit >> down and write documentation on how to configure Emacs for >> this or that job. > > I think the problem is different: there are already people > who write documentation on how to configure Emacs for tasks. > There are also many .emacs.d reppositories. > > There are awesome Emacs setups out there, much better than > what I have. > > What's missing is a way to integrate these efforts into > Emacs so new users can benefit from them. 100%! Before I write a `defun', I always think, did someone else already write this exact defun - in Emacs, in GNU ELPA, on some -hub or some homepage, anywhere? And the answer is always, "I don't know". And then I ask: "Okay, but how do I find out then?" "I don't know." -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal