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From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gathering data on user preferences
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:25:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lybl55ggg6.fsf@Lumet.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h7exkphw.fsf@gmail.com


Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> My thinking is that we could create an ELPA package which works
> in a similar way to report emacs bug (in fact, it could probably
> leverage off some of that functionality). Essentially, it would generate a
> buffer containing details of variables of interest and their current
> setting in a set format which could then be emailed to a data gathering
> address. The set format would make it possible to process these messages
> via scripts to collate the data.

I proposed this almost exactly a year ago...
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00451.html
I got no responses.

I still think it's a good idea and I hope people respond to you.

-- 

Howard




  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07  3:22 Gathering data on user preferences Tim Cross
2021-09-07  4:25 ` Howard Melman [this message]
2021-09-07  6:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 13:22     ` Howard Melman
2021-09-08 13:37       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-07  6:42 ` tomas
2021-09-07  7:54   ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07  8:11     ` tomas
2021-09-07  9:09       ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 12:32         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 13:48           ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 14:52             ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 16:53               ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 18:46                 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 23:14                   ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08  7:52   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08  8:14     ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08 10:41       ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-08 13:02         ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08 12:52       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08 13:00         ` Tim Cross

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