From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:19:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <877g11c8wh.fsf@gmx.us> <87wq91uhe8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k3508oie.fsf@gmx.us> <87mw9mqqb2.fsf@bernoul.li> <874mvufdes.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87mw9iu8p8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411996818 5700 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2014 13:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christopher Allan Webber , Jonas Bernoulli , Rasmus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 15:20:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYas6-0002pj-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYas5-0007nF-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYarj-0007mT-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYarc-0006bz-5b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:58614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYarc-0006bi-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:19:40 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZDoJ4g0rAPYEXF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjEAs0EhQYDVKHVgjSGReJTIUuB4Q4BKkZgWqCcFwh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZDoJ4g0rAPYEXF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjEAs0EhQYDVKHVgjSGReJTIUuB4Q4BKkZgWqCcFwh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="91185262" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.232]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Sep 2014 09:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 52D457D01; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:19:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87mw9iu8p8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:33:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174802 Archived-At: >>> Instead of adding Magit as is, I would rather add certain components of >>> Magit to Emacs itself (after sufficiently abstracting them) and move >>> certain functionality into libraries that are already part of Emacs. >> That would be great. There are some features of magit that would be >> really nice to have available for all packages by being bundled with >> emacs. The popup menu system is pretty much the best, for example. > It is really nice. There is a similar solution in org-mode (the export > dispatcher) and even in auctex (which is simpler but generally works out > the right thing to do for you). FWIW, I don't use any of those things, so I don't really know what kind of "popup-menu" you're talking about. Stefan