From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Provide different sets of .emacs [Was: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:52:31 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <87myq4saw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200802151711.m1FHB3Y3008798@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802171658.m1HGwQ4h011067@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219085231.GA1032@muc.de> <200802190938.m1J9ccVg016565@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219190127.GA1106@muc.de> <877ih0o9dx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203565989 23451 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 03:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:53:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 04:53:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JS2V0-0004JY-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:53:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JS2UV-00077K-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JS2UQ-00074t-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JS2UO-00072V-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JS2UO-00072R-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:52 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JS2UN-0005WD-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JS2UH-0000vW-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:52:45 +0000 Original-Received: from gw.community-engine.co.jp ([210.255.51.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:52:45 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by gw.community-engine.co.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:52:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.community-engine.co.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nO40FLBy8gtMJFzx4h+mThYcNsQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89772 Archived-At: David Reitter writes: > Is it possible to satisfy both types of users? > Can't there be two variants of Emacs? This discussion grows so huge... I think we can provide different sets of .emacs aiming at different people. In the EMMS[1] project, we have a separate file `emms-setup.el' dealing with a similar situation, it includes four pre-defined sets of configurations: ,----[ four configurations ] | (defun emms-minimalistic () | "An Emms setup script. | Invisible playlists and all the basics for playing media." | ) | | (defun emms-standard () | "An Emms setup script. | Everything included in the `emms-minimalistic' setup, the Emms | interactive playlist mode, reading information from tagged | audio files, and a metadata cache." | ) | | (defun emms-all () | "An Emms setup script. | Everything included in the `emms-standard' setup and adds all the | stable features which come with the Emms distribution." | ) | | (defun emms-devel () | "An Emms setup script. | Everything included in the `emms-all' setup and adds all the | features which come with the Emms distribution regardless of if | they are considered stable or not. Use this if you like living | on the edge." | ) `---- Emacs could have something similar, like emacs-newbie, emacs-guru... Then for instance, in this thread, we can make transient-mark-mode off in emacs-newbie and on in emacs-guru. That will make everyone happy, right? After all, you just need one command jumping to different set of configurations. Footnotes, [1] EMMS, http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/ -- William http://williamxu.net9.org