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| From: | Uday S Reddy |
| Subject: | Re: document package.el |
| Date: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:51:29 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 |
On 8/27/2010 4:14 AM, Christoph wrote:
On 8/26/2010 5:50 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:Downloading&installing packages from .emacs should not be encouraged.Why?
Because if it gets stuck, your Emacs is stuck. A start-up file should do quick and safe configuration actions and return to the user so that he/she can get on with using it.
You are free to put whatever you want in your .emacs of course. But that can't be the policy.
Cheers, Uday
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