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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:09:53 -0500 |
So split the setup means break up the user's .emacs file into parts:
config/
.emacs
style/ -> spell.el ; spell features
-> lisp.el ; lisp programming features
the .emacs file is carefully coded to make sure that it has a low
risk of errors. Note that the style directory is not included in load-path
deliberately.
We ask people not to start off beginners with a customized Emacs.
A new users should learn a standard Emacs, and then customize it
if he wants to customize it. But he shouldn't be led into using
something nonstandard before he knows the difference.
In this case turning
on, adding, and customizing the various spelling features of Emacs to the
point where spelling support is pervasive and well integrated constitutes
a modular style of using Emacs.
Do you think that enabling the spelling features of Emacs is complex?
If so, maybe we should simplify it. That would be a better solution
to this problem, if it exists.
each of these large customization files such as spell.el have this basic fo=
rm:
phase 1: define a installer
phase 2: check dependencies with require
phase 3: perform customization
Why is so much needed just to enable spelling features?
1. User request's some help getting their Emacs setup with some of Bob's (G=
uru) features.
2. User receives The Guru's modular configuration and installs it.
If "Bob's features" refers to Lisp packages not included in Emacs,
then why not install them in the standard directory on the user's
machine? There `load-library' will find them without any special
effort.
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/01/01
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, John S. Yates, Jr., 2008/01/01
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Agustin Martin, 2008/01/02
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/03
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/03
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Trey Jackson, 2008/01/04
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Gianluca Della Vedova, 2008/01/04
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/05