From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Test Alternative initialize scheme Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 21:06:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86zi2g2lzp.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20180404231211.GB31955@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523041708 27392 195.159.176.226 (6 Apr 2018 19:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 19:08:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 21:08:24 2018 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 1f4Wil-00072A-Tm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 21:08:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4Wkr-0001T0-Cm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:10:33 -0400 X-Received: by 10.28.158.143 with SMTP id h137mr523612wme.25.1523041579486; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:06:19 -0700 (PDT) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.65.63 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!69no1079976wms.0!news-out.google.com!k195ni6223wmd.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.muarf.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: Mq3CdlVpWThKpW6fSn+6ow.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MaJ9BuaySaGjCr+EbUTWovHp2bM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222261 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:116382 Archived-At: Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote: > There's a script called emacs-distribution on EmacsWiki > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-distribution > > It achieves the same thing you're trying to do, > but using a different method - it presets HOME > env variable. Clever! BTW what is the reason for the different Emacs distributions? And why are they so few in numbers compared to the distributions of Linux for example? Which are so many, and the vast majority isn't even "Linux distributions" - because what is being forked isn't Linux, the kernel, but rather the distribution itself! So they are distributions of a distribution! Is it because the "Joe-Hacker creativity" with Emacs goes into Elisp, which can float on top of everyone's Emacs, instead of combining the window manager with another desktop manager (and new background color) in yet another permutation? But couldn't people do that, the Elisp way, on Linux as well, only even more so, because there any conceivable programming language and environment can float wherever it wants? And isn't that what's is happening by the way? So what is really going on?! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573