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Re: using use-package
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Rusi |
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Re: using use-package |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Aug 2015 18:34:25 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 10:54:33 PM UTC+5:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2015-08-05 09:34 -0700, Rusi wrote:
>
> > > That way lies Ubuntu - an ancient African word meaning "much simpler
> > > than the simplest possible".
>
> > I get that you are making a joke... But I dont get it :-(
> > Is it that...
> > - Using use-package oversimplifies?
>
> Maybe not right now, but promoting it as the one and true way of
> configuring emacs would eventually lead to a state where some things are
> no longer possible, or (and this is the Ubuntu way) they are _officially
> supposed_ to be possible, but because hardly anybody does them they're
> untested and unsupported by the developers.
Strange logic.
Putting in the core is rather some distance from promoting as the "one true
way"
Analogy: Some ifs can be shortened to when/unless/and etc but not all.
Should when/unless/and be banned since people forget how to use if?
>
> Emacs is full of interdependencies by its nature. Things like adaptive
> fill, global font lock, imenu, work slightly differently in each mode
> depending on configuration of that mode. There's a plausible argument
> that this is a misdesign, but it is far too deeply ingrained now to
> change, IMO.
>
> Also the use of dynamic scoping plays into this. Much code was
> intentionally written so that the way to change its behavior (sometimes
> the only way) is to let-bind a global variable. case-fold is a classic
> example. It is not clear to me how partitioning configuration into
> packages can deal with this.
Old users of emacs forget that many potential new users never cross
the potential barrier to becoming actual users because of initial (includes
init!) complexity
- Re: using use-package, (continued)
- Re: using use-package, Rusi, 2015/08/05
- Re: using use-package, Ian Zimmerman, 2015/08/05
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- Re: using use-package, Rusi, 2015/08/05
- Re: using use-package, Ian Zimmerman, 2015/08/05
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- Re: using use-package,
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- Re: using use-package, Ian Zimmerman, 2015/08/05
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- Re: using use-package, Rusi, 2015/08/06
- Re: using use-package, Grant Rettke, 2015/08/07
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- Re: using use-package, Rusi, 2015/08/07
- Re: using use-package, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/08
- Re: using use-package, Grant Rettke, 2015/08/09
- Re: using use-package, Phillip Lord, 2015/08/10
- Re: using use-package, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/10
- Re: using use-package, Phillip Lord, 2015/08/10
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- Re: using use-package, Rusi, 2015/08/10