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: Request to add tomelr package to GNU ELPA Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 19:19:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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="23784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 01:27:09 2022 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 1nn7Lo-000604-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 01:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nn7Ln-0005wJ-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 19:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nn7EF-00085L-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 19:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nn7ED-0001Fq-7Q; Fri, 06 May 2022 19:19:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=KfuGzOok0nPmb5bavWQlk/FERgfHugcStG6ydZ0YLRM=; b=RJ5+k71ApRDE T0j6f9YeO0dPo50ziz7bs9v/PbGgTuH9gD+3vyyyj5TFGuntuM35FNOK7jaSD9dPPnXpa86EI9t09 GDCZdegXSSv3OEGEn1oWD7U0+T8LYwwHWK14AhROYHgIe6W+YQKvYOpoOKuYk5i6hJnoXPmjAeMHb f382eY/ZmPYOHa/AhPHknlgKp1yukARr+tPslX7hQdoGf6Tl3X/J6wcSQvXpJlKuKQVbG6hjSYRsj MF0tn2xEdj7CNS6fUzmVqrE+i0FQp9HKlhVoclSmUfqZp+qdLar0acS5OVczir4YHyVe48AyInPSc V06LqHJlSeuu9LOBuhe4WA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nn7EA-0001gI-P4; Fri, 06 May 2022 19:19:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Kaushal Modi on Thu, 5 May 2022 17:05:56 -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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:289360 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. ]]] > > Would it make sense to handle other somewhat similar formats > > of configuration data? For instance, the data in .ssh/config? > > The data in /etc/network/interfaces? > It should be possible to generate that but the tomelr.el won't be the > place for that. I expact that _generating_ various similar formats will be straightforward, so I encourage people to try adding those changes to the existing tomelr package. -- 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)