From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:56:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> <5592550c-72f1-4e9b-93db-dc7f95742d27@googlegroups.com> <874n6vx2aq.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385704820 26582 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2013 06:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:00:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 29 07:00:26 2013 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 1VmH7p-0001wH-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:00:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmH7p-0006vc-0I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:00:25 -0500 X-Received: by 10.58.249.208 with SMTP id yw16mr8252759vec.10.1385704614131; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:56:54 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.138.197 with SMTP id qs5mr102376igb.7.1385704614092; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:56:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!p15no1960845qaj.0!news-out.google.com!p7ni3166qat.0!nntp.google.com!p15no1960840qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <874n6vx2aq.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.35.25; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.35.25 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:56:54 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202442 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:94711 Archived-At: On Friday, November 29, 2013 9:54:36 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > >> Has anyone already come up with a name for large > >> customizations? I've noticed a number of efforts to > >> significantly customize Emacs in a way that other > >> people can readily use. ... > > > > I remember Alan Mackenzie use the word 'emacsicality'. > > I still don't understand what a "large customization" > is, or is supposed to be. Standard (and contentious) example: cua. Current cua-mode is a hack. If someone wants cua *keybindings* with standard emacs *functionality* he is out of luck because this requires deep surgery on all modes -- moving out C-x and C-c to some other keys.