From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:22:44 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <871u1yezoy.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> <5592550c-72f1-4e9b-93db-dc7f95742d27@googlegroups.com> <874n6vx2aq.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87eh5yitq2.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385821511 9065 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2013 14:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:25:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 30 15:25:18 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 1VmlTx-0003OS-IY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmlTw-0005c9-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:25:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KnlgJRTXSaVBzegQXbKcFspMJ5M= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202481 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:94750 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > So what are you saying, someone would perform that > deep surgery (to get a non-hack cua), and this would > be an Emacs "suite"? No, it is the other way around, of course! Aha! Then the analogy with the Linux distributions is - well, in many ways, it *is* the same, but purely practical, to us, it is just a couple of configuration files. And those are already done, at most we need to compile them. We don't need any CDs/DVDs, homepages, listbots, T-shirts ... One .el file will make a huge difference, compared to a huge distro that changes the background. This could actually be the *opposite* to reinventing the wheel because if there are those suite files available, people don't have to do that configuration themselves. OK, I change my mind. It is a good idea. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573