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: An anonymous IRC user's opinion Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:54:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19ed5fa4ec0d3be9cfddc92ce2c78e47f2a3efb6.camel@octave.org> <87y133u4bf.fsf@web.de> 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="18307"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eduardoochs@gmail.com, jordigh@octave.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 07 05:55:53 2024 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 1sxeqf-0004a4-Ej for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:55:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxepp-0002hn-1A; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxepn-0002hO-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxepm-0008FO-EE; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:54:58 -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=xLRe0lu7EUOyG5a7F8mOnYn7+NjP2oZ+xEna7wrUu3A=; b=pmyxVw3xuBzX VmT66Z7CRkyN9x6jbhnvtAXqEpDetR9xLcMfeJaQxhLaUAymPZOUCVhV9sJR49kISsZHtuXdmOWxG TxncPL9cJAEGDOrSY29hgxKyJ8rLK8FbojV6jKTwfyEHuaS66jc2iC0Ib026u9Vq8y5eBd6NyOVnr XM8kU8H8oESsIPASwpgNogFnsHvljGNxN/1tEp03SIyzpXVpbCnCLK8E72vAAZpJKhuG354dpgGtT qcDTG6nBP+zN1UV9fLc82Bv2+OoOPmBan1D+KEtzF2pD3BDmfPj0jGtfAnVL3NNeOAa6d7tSHHUqV 4oTh4d7PmexqYJHDaf/nsg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxepl-0005VJ-Oa; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:54:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y133u4bf.fsf@web.de> (arne_bab@web.de) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:324367 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. ]]] > From that I could imagine a similar approach to provide different > installers that install a pre-configured Emacs for the specific task. I am trying to figure out concretely what that means, but I can't be sure -- there are many possibilities. Who would select and install one "pre-configured Emacs"? A user, for perself? An admin, for a user? Who would the chosen pre-configured Emacs be installed for? For a site (affecting all users)? For one particular user? In any case, I don't think we would different versions _of Emacs_. Wouldn't it suffice just to generate a .emacs file with a few user options set? -- 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)