From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aquamacs distro for OS X like behavior Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:38:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7ca1709813602da58a139cee58fb4c63@gmail.com> <3b9c4e2f33d37fed55f640dcafbc8d65@gmail.com> <002d01c53a15$4a871c60$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <004e01c53bc0$adedf560$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113018110 30079 80.91.229.2 (9 Apr 2005 03:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, robert@roebling.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jvromans@squirrel.nl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 05:41:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DK6qb-0000RN-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 05:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DK6QE-0005GT-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DK6ON-00048b-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DK6OI-00045F-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DK6OH-000437-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DK6pO-0001L7-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DK6nt-0007TV-AY; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:38:37 -0400 Original-To: David Reitter In-reply-to: (message from David Reitter on Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:50:52 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35790 How about documenting interfaces for the most commonly used functions, starting with tasks where a good GUI would be helpful? For example, one could define a structured language to serialize customization settings, which could then be parsed by little external modules - written by the community or the port people in order to implement system-native behavior. This would not preclude the use of the default behavior, This sounds like a research project to me. It might be an interesting research project, for whoever is minded to do research in this area.