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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50936@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50936: "(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:28:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee94euwe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnVCSDMQNyjiTB52i0yaFA_Y7Y+WoEOEaCNCK7VtRmx9Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 1 Oct 2021 15:15:26 +0200)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 15:15:26 +0200
> Cc: 50936@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > More importantly, I think we should seriously consider whether such
> > text has its place in that section.  That section is supposed to be a
> > cookbook for quickly and efficiently find Emacs features, so it should
> > be limited to methods and commands that accurate, in the sense that
> > they don't present the user with long lists of potential hits.  By
> > contrast, list-packages shows a very long list of packages (more than
> > 400 as of this writing), which can easily overwhelm the user.  Even
> > "C-h p" doesn't show such long lists (the longest has 50 items), and
> > it is already too long, which is why it's the last in the list of
> > recommended methods.
> 
> That's a problem, but there is IMO no way around that as long as Emacs
> doesn't bundle packages like php-mode, haskell-mode, eglot or
> lsp-mode, markdown-mode, etc.

I don't understand the relevance, please elaborate.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-01 11:48 bug#50936: "(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 13:15   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 13:28     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-01 14:42       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 15:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 17:28           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 12:46   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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