From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory. Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:19:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20171102131915.GA6089@tuxteam.de> References: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com> <20171027201031.GD29934@tuxteam.de> <86k1zgmcf1.fsf@zoho.com> <20171028070135.GA21162@tuxteam.de> <86fu9xm2uf.fsf@zoho.com> <20171102105721.GD27253@tuxteam.de> <868tfox269.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509628816 13638 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2017 13:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:20:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 14:20:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFPg-0002Tz-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFPl-0002Ij-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFP8-0002HX-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFP0-0003nW-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:51567) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFP0-0003mu-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:19:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=20171004; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=DH2JIKcu8F+KRUHVoOgPzS0OZ0r7Ix/ljP5//XqX9Yk=; b=SLT2vlS5b9AGhdyGtO57AHSZbzBo3BAY3t/PJXg0D+FfdAkq03smWoQV4Wzp7sqch6k3vf6yyV9imnHMAxNrNrgCJcWFll5u1lNdUoGFQaVRXTbcGuihSQQ2MbKHXKrqdc7T7F1nuqK2xZ0JqeOnDf+n7h9trG38YYh6Wd6KeCmJPghU/oLOTL6frwF254VKxxmQ7BNWQYZ9oyGbYE+NI3mtlP7HEMlkIYcdqoVrD4U1o/8ITNMdJzdLbAxmjAaqTxXNzQahEPuKdyNs3Y4gnZ89z/2YJ88z9HWinMvrel8F8/efKR90E+SwWvnp2rbFMc77fvfweF7NQ5KuxoslqQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFOt-0001ea-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:19:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <868tfox269.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114726 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > t wrote: > > > tomas@trotzki:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep > > -v deinstall | wc -l 724 > > incal@stalin:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | wc -l > > 2100 > > ... yes? Yes, ramping up, as I said :-) > > (Emacs, btw. is a stellar example. Don't care > > about latest and greatest? Fine. Distro does > > a perfect job. Do care? Also fine, go ahead.) > > Of course anyone can get the source for > whatever SW and compile it on their computers > if that is what you mean by "go ahead". > > But why can't you get the "latest and greatest" > thru you distro or an interface equally simple > as the pack manager? Because for ~98% of those packages I want "tried and tested" and not "latest and greatest". The other 2% I care specially for I put more admin work into (and bear with ocassional breakage). > Well, sometimes you can, and this is what those > gadgets do! It is not a pesky icon somewhere on > a desktop that pops up every time you look at > it you should download some new version. > They are shell tools just like the apt- family > or what have you. > > Sure no one ever did one for Emacs? I don't see > why it wouldn't be just an easy wrapper to do. It's still one gadget per app to take care of. I don't feel like feeding thousands of gadgets, even if they are shell scripts. > Another idea would be to set up a "bleeding > edge" repo and hook into that with the > /etc/apt/sources.list config. Try Debian unstable. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAln7G1MACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbiDACfagscFOrbMYgRJcXza+CeM1hc j/0AnjuoF/2KG6ih1kpo1kwQDYZtQZP5 =yvmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----