From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 13:14:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BDE404-8C6A-4EA3-854A-7B500524AEBB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=zufw59adN8WRXXDPr78Sg+rZxMh03CuBehgc6Te2vcg@mail.gmail.com>
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 10:50 AM, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don’t have any problem of adding it to core. I’m just pessimistic
>> about how many people are incentivized to push for it and agree on
>> things.
>
> I am incentivized to both push for and agree on things. ;-)
>
> More seriously, you already had Eli agree that this does belong in core,
> so I think the process should be rather smooth sailing, especially if we
> try to make the first step as uncontroversial as possible.
Thanks. I’m happy to work on that.
>> Putting it on ELPA doesn’t stop from working it into core, I think. I
>> don’t want to get into another 1000-thread debate about what is the
>> “minimal set”. Many of the stuff in setup-wizard.el are not easily
>> agreed upon, but removing them IMO decreases the usefulness of
>> setup-wizard.
>
> How about putting the uncontroversial part in core, and creating a more
> opinionated/useful add-on to put in GNU ELPA? Then you can do basically
> whatever you think is best in your add-on, while all new users still
> benefit from the less opinionated/useful part that we put in core.
>
> I am also not eager to get into a 1000-thread debate, but here are my
> observations on the points you bring up:
>
>> For example, the “wizards’ choice” binding scheme,
>
> Could you expand on what this means?
Binding copy, cut and paste to s-c, s-x, s-v, respectively. It might not always work since some window managers intercept the super modifier bindings, but otherwise I think they could be useful. I use them myself from time to time.
>
>> the option to turn off menu-bar,
>
> I have no opinion on whether or not this should be part of an initial
> setup wizard.
>
>> the recommendation of ivy and company.
>
> These sound good to me. Does the wizard also help install the packages,
> and say clearly that this is about to happen?
Yes and yes, Po suggested stating clearly that packages are downloaded automatically from the Internet. I added some words that say that.
Yuan
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Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-02 2:07 Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 2:37 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 3:02 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 3:22 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 5:51 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 6:30 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 7:58 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 8:07 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 9:07 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 9:22 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 9:45 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-01-02 9:45 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 10:09 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-01-02 10:15 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 10:25 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-01-02 10:34 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 10:57 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 11:30 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 12:01 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 11:31 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
[not found] ` <CADs++6jtFBah1hhsuN6T_-kFyjc_pNmmVKA+16vOWa8OctOZLw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-02 11:02 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 11:17 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 11:36 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 12:03 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 15:27 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <MsPZqa9--3-2@tutanota.de-MsP_1xO----2>
2022-01-02 11:57 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 12:05 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 15:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 16:43 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 17:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 18:51 ` FW: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-02 19:07 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 21:29 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-02 22:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-03 6:42 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-03 7:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-03 8:19 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 9:27 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 9:55 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 10:10 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 10:21 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 10:53 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 11:07 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 11:25 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 11:32 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 12:13 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 12:20 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 12:32 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 12:44 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 12:55 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 13:24 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 15:15 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-03 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-04 21:19 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-04 21:28 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-04 22:38 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-04 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-05 5:28 ` tomas
2022-01-05 7:43 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-05 8:13 ` tomas
2022-01-07 10:34 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-03 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-03 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-04 1:50 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-04 2:53 ` Po Lu
2022-01-04 4:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-04 4:30 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-04 6:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-04 15:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-04 21:25 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 0:58 ` Po Lu
2022-01-05 15:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-06 6:32 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-03 0:42 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 18:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-02 11:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-07 10:09 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-02 18:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-02 9:41 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 17:18 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 18:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-07 10:02 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-07 10:50 ` Po Lu
2022-01-07 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 22:54 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-10 4:15 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-10 15:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-10 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-11 4:47 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-11 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-02 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 8:07 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 15:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 17:26 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-02 17:36 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
[not found] ` <MsQrOAf--J-2@tutanota.de-MsQrQR2----2>
2022-01-02 17:55 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-02 18:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 21:14 ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2022-01-03 0:45 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 0:59 ` Yuan Fu
2022-01-03 1:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-03 9:12 ` Joost Kremers
2022-01-03 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 13:00 ` Po Lu
2022-01-03 19:30 ` Joost Kremers
2022-01-02 8:07 ` Po Lu
2022-01-02 15:23 ` nanjunjie
2022-01-03 8:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-04 16:09 ` Nan JunJie
2022-01-04 19:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-02 12:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-07 9:58 ` Jean Louis
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2022-01-02 15:46 Simon Pugnet
2022-01-02 17:26 Simon Pugnet
2022-01-02 18:49 ` Stefan Kangas
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