Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Ship Mints]

Probably already mentioned...Philip Kaludercic made the following Emacs init file generator which might be a good basis for helping people get started with specialized packages and configurations they might want to try. It's written in common lisp but could be an elisp package as part of Emacs, perhaps.

https://emacs.amodernist.com/

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:15 AM Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

Richard Stallman wrote:

>> From that I could imagine a similar approach to provide
>> different installers that install a pre-configured Emacs
>> for the specific task.
>
> I am trying to figure out concretely what that means, but
> I can't be sure -- there are many possibilities.
>
> Who would select and install one "pre-configured Emacs"?
> A user, for perself? An admin, for a user?

I think he means for example if the user wants to do mail or
IRC, say. Then we have an installer for Gnus (or rmail that
you wrote) and for ERC.

The installer probably facilitates setting the necessary
settings for those programs to work. And maybe set the theme
as well.

I must say the whole thing, if I am interpreting it correctly,
doesn't appeal to me that much but maybe it is actually a great
idea, hard to tell.

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