emacs-info command?

emacs-info command?

[Mariano Montone]

Hello,
     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that 
shows current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly 
shows info about current Emacs.
My current implementation is very basic: 
https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el

And shows a buffer with:
----------------
Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
  of 2024-08-13
Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ 
JPEG LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND 
SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM 
XINPUT2 XPM GTK2 ZLIB
Native compilation: no
SVG: no
--------------

In any case, do you have ideas on what more that command could show?

Thanks,
      Mariano

Re: emacs-info command?

[Sebastián Monía]

Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that
> shows current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly
> shows info about current Emacs.

I don't think I had a need for one, I do use 'M-x version' somewhat
regularly: I tend to run pretest or an organic, locally sourced, fair
trade version(1) and sometimes I forget which one I am using.

The 'emacs-version' command inserts the version string at point with
prefix argument. Maybe it can show this buffer with double prefix arg?
Or negative argument.



(1) which means, version I compile myself.

-- 
Sebastián Monía
https://site.sebasmonia.com/

Re: emacs-info command?

[Ship Mints]

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In case my approach is of use, for "non production" Emacs versions or
instances, I change the background color of the mode-line and set the color
of 'internal-border. I set a "test flag" either on version or by
command-line argument "--test". The mode-line color shows fine in tty and
GUI. I can't easily get confused that way.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 9:09 AM Sebastián Monía <sebastian@sebasmonia.com>
wrote:

> Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that
> > shows current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly
> > shows info about current Emacs.
>
> I don't think I had a need for one, I do use 'M-x version' somewhat
> regularly: I tend to run pretest or an organic, locally sourced, fair
> trade version(1) and sometimes I forget which one I am using.
>
> The 'emacs-version' command inserts the version string at point with
> prefix argument. Maybe it can show this buffer with double prefix arg?
> Or negative argument.
>
>
>
> (1) which means, version I compile myself.
>
> --
> Sebastián Monía
> https://site.sebasmonia.com/
>
>

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Re: emacs-info command?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:49:30 -0300
> From: Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com>
> 
> Hello,
>      what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that 
> shows current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly 
> shows info about current Emacs.
> My current implementation is very basic: 
> https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el
> 
> And shows a buffer with:
> ----------------
> Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
> 2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
>   of 2024-08-13
> Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ 
> JPEG LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND 
> SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM 
> XINPUT2 XPM GTK2 ZLIB
> Native compilation: no
> SVG: no
> --------------

We have commands and variables to show this information already.  See

  M-x emacs-version
  M-: emacs-build-system RET
  M-: system-configuration RET
  M-: system-configuration-features RET
  M-: system-configuration-options RET

See also the command emacs-build-description, which inserts most of
the relevant information into the current buffer.

Re: emacs-info command?

[Mariano Montone]

El 31/10/24 a las 11:43, Eli Zaretskii escribió:
>> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:49:30 -0300
>> From: Mariano Montone <marianomontone@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hello,
>>       what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that
>> shows current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly
>> shows info about current Emacs.
>> My current implementation is very basic:
>> https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el
>>
>> And shows a buffer with:
>> ----------------
>> Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>> 2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
>>    of 2024-08-13
>> Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
>> JPEG LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND
>> SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM
>> XINPUT2 XPM GTK2 ZLIB
>> Native compilation: no
>> SVG: no
>> --------------
> We have commands and variables to show this information already.  See
>
>    M-x emacs-version
>    M-: emacs-build-system RET
>    M-: system-configuration RET
>    M-: system-configuration-features RET
>    M-: system-configuration-options RET
>
> See also the command emacs-build-description, which inserts most of
> the relevant information into the current buffer.
Oh. Thanks. I'll have a look at those.

Re: emacs-info command?

[Juri Linkov]

> Hello,
>     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that shows
> current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly shows info
> about current Emacs.
> My current implementation is very basic:
> https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el
>
> And shows a buffer with:
> ----------------
> Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
>  of 2024-08-13
> Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3
> THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM
> GTK2 ZLIB
> Native compilation: no
> SVG: no
> --------------

We could show more information at the end of 'C-h C-a'.

Re: emacs-info command?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:48:13 +0200
> 
> > Hello,
> >     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that shows
> > current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly shows info
> > about current Emacs.
> > My current implementation is very basic:
> > https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el
> >
> > And shows a buffer with:
> > ----------------
> > Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> > 2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
> >  of 2024-08-13
> > Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> > LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3
> > THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM
> > GTK2 ZLIB
> > Native compilation: no
> > SVG: no
> > --------------
> 
> We could show more information at the end of 'C-h C-a'.

We could, but IMO we shouldn't: this is not what that command is for.