From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 05:58:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87pmokqsd2.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czku1hon.fsf@gnu.org> <87sftpx5ja.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <874k63auq8.fsf@zoho.eu> <87iluh7mrv.fsf@zoho.eu> <87fspgsrk5.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26393"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ga5Axmj2zuw7fyxfjW8B8ciJb28= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 22 06:01:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB8X6-0006hs-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 06:01:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42412 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB8X5-0007yG-SP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB8WK-0007wT-6K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB8Vk-0000pw-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB8VO-0004qK-12 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 06:00:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135491 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >>> I strongly recommend looking at `xclip.el` before going >>> any further, because opinions derived just from the name >>> of a package tend to be rather ... brittle. >> >> :) >> >> But this is an interesting situation. There are two Linux >> tools. Should there be one Elisp package that works with >> either, or should there be one for each? > > It's even more twisted than that: according to > http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/xclip.html, `xclip.el` already > supports four of those two GNU/Linux tools. But ... the correct way is to merge, right, because the solution should be in terms of the problem, not what technology happens to make it possible? The more the merrier! Emacs, Linux (GNU/Linux) and zsh, all maximalist projects, like that song. I wouldn't go so far as to say she is the minimalized interface - rather a power player in her on right. So bring everything in and have the interface sort it out ... "What you once feared, now makes you free" https://dataswamp.org/~incal/vidz/fighting-fit-new-school.mp4 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal