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Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:39:32 +0300 |
> From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:22:31 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > [...]
> >> Let the package author choose and, and only one category, and any number
> >> of tags he/she wants to use to describe the package.
> >
> > That might be possible for some specialized packages, but not forf all
> > of them.
>
> >> When a user installs a package from a package archive, the category
> >> chosen by the author is presented as the default choice, and can be
> >> overridden by the user.
> >
> > If the category is not fixed, I'm not sure I see the utility of having
> > such categories at all in the custom file.
>
> My idea about the category was to use it for grouping things into
> "topical files" inside emacs.d. Consider the following, fictional,
> example:
Thanks, but I think we may be miscommunicating. A package can belong
to more than one category -- what do you propose to do in that case?
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, (continued)
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Nicola Manca, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/21
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/21
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/22
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/22
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/23
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/23
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/25
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/26
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/30
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/21
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/22
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/22
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alexander Adolf, 2020/09/25