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 17:40:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5592550c-72f1-4e9b-93db-dc7f95742d27@googlegroups.com> References: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385689512 19072 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2013 01:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:45:12 +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 02:45:18 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 1VmD8w-0003ba-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:45:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmD8w-0001b5-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:45:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.160.168 with SMTP id xl8mr15670006pab.14.1385689241857; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:40:41 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.61.200 with SMTP id s8mr95733igr.17.1385689241786; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:40:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i10no3443249pba.1!news-out.google.com!p7ni3166qat.0!nntp.google.com!p15no1740625qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.25.155; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.25.155 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:40:41 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202440 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:94709 Archived-At: On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:01:46 AM UTC+5:30, ian.tegebo wrote: > Has anyone already come up with a name for large customizations? I've no= ticed a number of efforts to significantly customize Emacs in a way that ot= her people can readily use. The first term that came to mind was "flavor",= as it seems to largely be a matter of taste. > > I've written up a few thoughts and linked to what I could find: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IanTegebo/Flavors > > The above boils down to, "If it's a good idea, how do we do it?". > > Comments appreciated, I remember Alan Mackenzie use the word 'emacsicality'.