From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: melpa.org Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:11:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87tv3eh1fc.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="118929"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:OINdtP0YsGel+FrL40Jtb6ivKKo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 25 21:12:22 2020 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 1j6gZ3-000Uny-Im for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34698 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6gZ2-0008FY-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6gYi-0008FF-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6gYg-0005a2-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:58280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6gYg-0005Vd-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j6gYe-000UJf-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:11:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:122469 Archived-At: Jude DaShiell wrote: > I checked with edbrowse on my system and > found out edbrowse can read melpa.org. > For those of us not running graphical user > interfaces, edbrowse is an editor-browser > clone that runs in text mode and supports > enough javascript to pass the javascript > ghoon at the door. It has a learning curve > and configuration to do on the systems that > already have it packaged for users to > download and use. But to use MELPA, why worry about JavaScript and the web at all? Why not just do (setq package-archives '(( "gnu elpa" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") ( "melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/" ))) and then use `list-packages' happily ever after? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal