Re: emacs stackexchange beta site

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> It is great that site materialized.
>>
>> It is. It's a chance to give specialized answers in
>> a way that's relatively permanent with respect to
>> googling. It's also an excuse for the lazy to post
>> very basic questions without going through the
>> trouble of even a single search, but you can't have
>> everything I suppose. :-)
>
> There was a lengthy discussion as to the
> permanent/Google/lazy aspects of it all, well, more
> opinions back-and-forth I should say. Probably it'll
> be interesting to you if you didn't already read it.
>
>>> Seriously, is there a link from that site to our
>>> support-line and/or feud-o-rena here? Both the
>>> listbot and the gnu.emacs.help newsgroup should be
>>> mentioned, I think!
>>
>> The community there will soon start deciding things
>> like what to put in the FAQ page. Things like the
>> mailing list and the wiki are sure to be there.
>
> Don't forget this is also a USENET (NNTP) newsgroup -
> gnu.emacs.help - which can be accessed in the full
> sweetness of things with Gnus (which I hope will be an
> often-visited tag on your site!).
>
>>> If they would communicate with us perhaps it would
>>> be simpler to make an interface (or partial
>>> interface to begin with),
>>
>> As in..?
>
> I can think of dozens of things. Links are the first
> step. But then... There has been so much material on
> this list/group. How do you reference particularly
> interesting posts? Indeed, how do you find them? How
> do we access your site in a way that isn't to
> far-fetched from what we are used to? For example,
> does it require JavaScript? Does it play well with
> Emacs-w3m and other in-Emacs browsing alternatives?
> Using the site from and with Emacs should be a
> objective from day one, don't you think? Thinking big
> (although it isn't big in terms of technology if the
> wish is there, at least not in terms of reading) - can
> it be integrated with the message-mode, with Gnus and
> RMAIL? For example, why don't you generate a mail once
> a week with all the new questions and post it here?
> There are just tons of things that are worth
> checking/trying out. (There was already a guy here who
> did a question-based interface to the SX sites - it
> was about parsing the HTML and showing the results in
> plain text - I remember many people were delighted and
> it seemed to work well but I didn't hear from him
> since.)

There is the SOS package, which allows to search the stackexchange site
and returns the result in org format - but no posting from there.


>
> What I hope for the future of computing is
> UI-agnostic: some guy likes USENET, some other guy
> likes SX, some guy likes CLI, some guy GUI, some the
> keyboard, some the mouse, and so on. Why fight about
> it? Just make the data independent from all that and
> then have everyone access it and interact with it any
> way and with any tool he or she desires.
>
> Here is an example right here:
>
> U+1F44D is the Unicode for "THUMBS UP" [1].
>
> I'm on another kind of system than most people so I
> can't see it. But I can still insert it (`C-x 8 RET
> 1f44d RET') - I hope (do you see it?):
>
> 👍
>
> You see. It is not that difficult :)
>
> Anyway, good luck!
>
> [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F44D/index.htm

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