From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using use-package Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 09:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <17131863-cbb8-4a85-8470-490fe9a0c0d4@googlegroups.com> References: <6d1f1d5c-b438-4e83-9a54-16904c7949ef@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438792525 20964 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 16:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:35:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 18:35:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZN1f2-0004la-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:35:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1f2-0002hn-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:35:24 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.160.135 with SMTP id xk7mr9219273pab.9.1438792467683; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:34:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.28.19 with SMTP id x19mr3790igg.16.1438792467637; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f3no7948963igg.0!news-out.google.com!nt1ni183igb.0!nntp.google.com!pg9no7333037igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.38.14; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.38.14 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:34:27 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213974 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106259 Archived-At: On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 11:27:57 AM UTC+5:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2015-08-04 22:35 -0700, Rusi wrote: > > > I will be teaching programming again. I would really appreciate if I > > can 'hand-out' pieces of config that are shorter, neater, > > less-interdependent than my higgledy-piggledy init-mess > > That way lies Ubuntu - an ancient African word meaning "much simpler > than the simplest possible". > > :-P I get that you are making a joke... But I dont get it :-( Is it that... - Using use-package oversimplifies? - Inits can only be higgledy-piggledy messes? - Just use the emacs packages from ubuntu and to hell with emacs-packages (from emacs)? - More interdependent is better? [Yeah some out here prefer let* to let ]