From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o8lwu085.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eduardo@mercovich.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: "Philip K." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 03:33:47 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 1kLG8o-00050S-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:33:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60634 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLG8n-0007Xb-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:33:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLG7G-0005Jr-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLG7E-0006fZ-3g; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kLG7C-000162-65; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o8lwu085.fsf@posteo.net> (philipk@posteo.net) 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:256385 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > Everyone with a .emacs file has a configuration, but that's not what > Doom, Spacemacs, etc. provide. In a sense, they forked Emacs, without > forking the core code, instead providing a patch-set in Elisp form + a > DSL. I keep receiving different descriptions of what those things consist of. I don't know which description is correct, but I can suggest a term for each one. For this description, I suggest "Emacs patch distributions." What is a "DSL"? And what code is in it? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)