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Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate)
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Jambunathan K |
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Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate) |
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Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:42:28 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> Another thing to consider is that the table was empty to start
> with, and different entries appeared at different points, when
> someone thought to add them.
Actually, it was seeded with my .emacs + Tom's initial list + Andrew's
list - 1 vote for each of the features.
> So, e.g., if the first person happened to add feature `blah'
> to the list, then subsequent "voters" saw `blah' and considered
> it. If `floop' was not added until much later (for whatever
> reason), subsequent voters did not see `floop' until then.
It was for this reason that at around the time when the participant
count stood at 17, I added a list of all major and minor modes (by
rgrepping for define-derived-mode and define-minor-mode in the src
tree). It was generally felt by others that such a big and
comprehensive list would actually drive people away. (This reasoning is
perfeclty understandable.)
I have dumped the list of major and minor modes in to a separate page of
it's own. There are around 244 minor modes and 293 major/derived modes.
See
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/List_Of_Major_And_Minor_Modes
I couldn't think of any good reason why such a list would be useful. I
generated the list and I felt why not save it for posterity?
> It is what it is.
Sure it is. It is Emacs users telling how they relate to their Emacs.