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Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipu
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation |
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Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:49:54 +0000 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:52:31 +0100
>>
>> Eli> I will note that this is going where XEmacs was before, and I
>> Eli> don't think the result was encouraging, FWIW.
>>
>> Back when I still used XEmacs, downloading the 'sumo' tarball with all
>> the packages was the second step Iʼd perform after downloading the
>> sources, so in practice splitting them out didnʼt do much for me.
>
> That's what I meant: any serious user always wanted the sumo tarball.
Yes, I would guess. No problems there, change "emacs.tgz" and
"emacs-with-elpa.tgz" into "emacs-minimal.tgz" and "emacs.tgz".
>
>> OTOH I donʼt think XEmacs ever had anything like elpa.
>
> I'm not sure this matters. Downloading files was possible then as
> well, albeit more manually. And XEmacs did have a package system.
>
>> BTW, I may have missed part of the discussion, but why do we need two
>> tar balls?
>
> Because not everyone is on-line all the time.
They wouldn't need to be. Just some of the time.
Phil
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, (continued)
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/02
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/03
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/03
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/10
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/11
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Robert Pluim, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation,
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- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Phillip Lord, 2019/03/12
- XEmacs packages (was: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation), Stefan Monnier, 2019/03/12
- Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/12