Re: NonGNU ELPA

[Jean Louis]

* Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> [2020-12-05 14:46]:
> If so, then I have a potential feature once we have a few language modes
> in NonGNU ELPA (I see there's already Markdown and OCaml): When you open
> a file with ".md" extension for the first time, Emacs will ask whether
> you want to install markdown-mode from NonGNU ELPA, instead of opening
> the Markdown file in fundamental-mode.  Does this make sense?  To make
> it really useful, as the cadence of Emacs releases and NonGNU ELPA
> changes will surely be different, we'd somehow need to implement it in a
> way that does not couple the Emacs source code to the language mode
> packages available in NonGNU ELPA, if that's possible.

That may be useful as option to be decided by the subset of users who
need it.

It better not be by default to nag those who may not need it.

Have been editing markdown since 2004 and just before 1-2 years have
discovered markdown-mode. The only thing I need in that mode is
preview which I can do myself by assigning a key to
function. Markdown's goal was always simplicity and being able to edit
with any editor. That is just to tell you of my user experience and
habit.