From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
Cc: gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regression in dump-emacs-portable
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:11:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1pVluI-0003Xe-12@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=F=bDfR99L+WAj0W0rO1DBOruwA3O1bCeOgRy2LCLJHpprkA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Lynn Winebarger on Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:32:12 -0500)
> I've also historically used the default settings of Emacs for the most
> part. But if I want to see how optional features provided by packages
> actually work, I want to be able to turn them on and off in an
> options-type menu the way I would in these other editors. Some
> libraries/packages provide customizations via autoload, but to really
> be sure you see all the knobs (and get some notion of what the
> functionality might be), the packages have to be loaded. Loading a
> bunch of libraries/packages (particularly packages) at startup can be
> slow.
I agree that this is a good area for improvement. M-x customize was a
stab in that direction, but it isn't as good as what other programs
do.
--
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)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-25 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 0:51 Regression in dump-emacs-portable Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-14 1:13 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 23:26 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-15 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 9:31 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 9:54 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:05 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-16 23:45 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 13:22 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 23:44 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-18 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 14:21 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 2:41 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 13:21 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-16 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 1:29 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 3:19 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 4:10 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-17 5:21 ` Po Lu
2023-02-17 12:57 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-23 15:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-02-23 22:32 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-02-25 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-25 4:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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