Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > From that I could imagine a similar approach to provide different
>   > installers that install a pre-configured Emacs for the specific task.
>
> Who would the chosen pre-configured Emacs be installed for?
> For a site (affecting all users)?
> For one particular user?

The pre-configuration should only affect the user who chooses it.

So it might be installed systemwide, but only actually setup the
$HOME/.emacs.d/init.el when it is started the first time.

> In any case, I don't think we would different versions _of Emacs_.
> Wouldn't it suffice just to generate a .emacs file with a few
> user options set?

Yes — the difference is not the implementation, but the workflow to get
that version. Reducing friction in that.

If users on GNU Linux can just `apt-get install emacs-for-cpp`, then
that emacs-for-cpp feels real. Even if the result is just a
pre-configured .emacs.d/init.el

If users on Windows can just get an installer of emacs-for-cpp, then
that emacs-for-cpp feels real. Even if ...

In both cases this could be an optimized configuration that enables
people to have an instantly running, well-optimized system for that
task.

Best wishes,
Arne
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