Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate)

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Another thing to consider is that the table was empty to start
> with, and different entries appeared at different points, when
> someone thought to add them.

Actually, it was seeded with my .emacs + Tom's initial list + Andrew's
list - 1 vote for each of the features.

> So, e.g., if the first person happened to add feature `blah'
> to the list, then subsequent "voters" saw `blah' and considered
> it.  If `floop' was not added until much later (for whatever
> reason), subsequent voters did not see `floop' until then.

It was for this reason that at around the time when the participant
count stood at 17, I added a list of all major and minor modes (by
rgrepping for define-derived-mode and define-minor-mode in the src
tree).  It was generally felt by others that such a big and
comprehensive list would actually drive people away.  (This reasoning is
perfeclty understandable.)

I have dumped the list of major and minor modes in to a separate page of
it's own.  There are around 244 minor modes and 293 major/derived modes.
See

     http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/List_Of_Major_And_Minor_Modes

I couldn't think of any good reason why such a list would be useful.  I
generated the list and I felt why not save it for posterity?

> It is what it is.

Sure it is.  It is Emacs users telling how they relate to their Emacs.