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: Could Emacs Have a Set-up Wizard? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lf4dwudp.fsf@polaris64.net> <87a6kttwl7.fsf@polaris64.net> <871r65peql.fsf@fastmail.fm> <62bfe109-1126-8d5f-ce84-bd9fe4ae1a71@gmail.com> 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="36511"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, stefan@marxist.se, simon@polaris64.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jim Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 05:46:23 2021 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 1mMj6r-0009HS-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 05:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj6q-00013a-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5O-0006rf-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5O-000723-FN; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj5K-0001YQ-Nv; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:44:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <62bfe109-1126-8d5f-ce84-bd9fe4ae1a71@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:15:18 -0700) 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:273983 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. ]]] How about if people start developing proposed Emacs set-up wizards? I don't think they necessarily require any particular change in Emacs. So if you write one that works, it would work for anyone, and people could give useful comments and suggestions. Eventually we might see one that would be worth installing. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)