Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Richard Stallman]

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  > We generally try to make all sorts of packages for various uses of
  > Emacs coexist in a single Emacs job.  I get the impression people are
  > assuming that these different configurations are mutually incompatible,
  > so that it is necessary to choose which one to install.

  > Is that what people assume?  If people do, why so?  Why can't
  > users select one at run time?

In general we make it possible for a single Emacs job to
contain various different configurations at the same time,
and the user can switch between them,  Usually it is controlled
by which buffer is current.

Am I right in thinking that Spacemacs and Doom require the
user to choose at an earlier stage?  Or did the descriptions
posted here give me the wrong impression?

If I understood that point correctly, is there any inherent reason why
we could not in Emacs offer the sorts of configurations that Spacemacs
and Doom do, but designed such that they can coexist in a single Emacs
job, perhaps with the current buffer controlling which one is active?

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