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Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:16:23 -0600 (MDT) |
I am concerned that when people use a heavyweight concept such as
"package system" to think about what they are doing, it will lead them
to choose a heavyweight approach. They might even get to thinking
that the goal is to make as complete and powerful a package system as
possible.
Hmmm. Halfway to what XEmacs does. The more I talk about this, the
more I'm beginning to realize what all the XEmacs package system does
(something I wanted to looked into, but never could find the time).
For instance:
* Each package has an "autoloads" script which establishes all the
important functions of the package that the user might call.
* Each package has a "custom-loads" script which finds all the
customization variables of the package so that its ready to be
customized by the user even before its loaded
Something like this could be useful, if the details are
designed with a view keeping it simple overall. We should avoid
talking or thinking about it as a "package system".
- Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Jari Aalto+mail, 2001/08/01
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, David Masterson, 2001/08/01
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/01
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/02
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Pavel Janík, 2001/08/02
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, David Masterson, 2001/08/02
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Jari Aalto+mail.linux, 2001/08/02
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/02
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, David Masterson, 2001/08/03
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, David Masterson, 2001/08/06
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Kai Großjohann, 2001/08/03
- Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2001/08/14
Re: Suggestion: Make tar-mode activated in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/02