From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "William G. Gardella" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate) Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:22:46 +0000 Message-ID: <87k3ffm18p.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> References: <87ppp7nqqa.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386541402 21462 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2013 22:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 08 23:23:28 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 1Vpml5-0002LR-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:23:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vpml4-0003kD-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vpmkk-0003k7-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:23:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vpmke-0002N7-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vpmke-0002La-Cg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vpmkd-00029E-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from herngaard.torservers.net ([96.44.189.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from wgg2 by herngaard.torservers.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:22:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: herngaard.torservers.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7xW+Xkkc+R+bQTSY1f0WQh9mbfo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:94884 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > Please read the instructions on that page carefully. Increment the > participant count. > > A good way to identify the mode that you use, is to do > > M-x occur RET mode RET > C-x b *Occur* > > If you are using some minor modes ONLY in some major modes you can > indicate it in the Comments. > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrequentlyEnabledPackages_Emacs244_Survey > > If you have some questions or comments please post it here or in the > Wiki page. The implementation of this survey is insane, and as a result, the wiki page is horribly b0rken. Why not use the automation provided by M-x report-emacs-bug ? Many people (particularly those with configs of long standing) are not necessarily aware of all the modes and libraries they're using. This should be automated.