Re: melpa.org

[Jude DaShiell]

The melpa archive fails to download.

(setq package-archives
          '(( "gnu elpa" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)
            ( "melpa"    . "https://melpa.org/packages/"; )))
(setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3")
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
;; Show keystrokes
(setq echo-keystrokes 0.02)
;; loose hourglass for text terminals without mouse
(setq display-hourglass nil)
;; optional keyboard short-cut
(global-set-key "\C-xm" 'browse-url-at-point)
(setq fill-column 72)
(setq use-dialog-box nil)
(setq delete-old-versions t)
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'turn-on-orgtbl)
(setq org-table-use-standard-references t)
(setq-default display-line-numbers 'relative)
(setq gnus-interactive-catchup nil)
(setq imap-ssl-program "openssl s_client -tls1 -connect %s:%p")
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "gmail.com"
                                     (nnimap-address "dashielljude@gmail.com")
                                     (nnimap-stream ssl)))
(setq gnus-read-active-file 'some)
(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
(setq gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
         'gnus-gather-threads-by-subject)
(setq gnus-thread-hide-subtree t)
   (setq gnus-thread-ignore-subject t)
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Emanuel Berg via
Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:11:51
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
>     <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: melpa.org
>
> Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > I checked with edbrowse on my system and
> > found out edbrowse can read melpa.org.
> > For those of us not running graphical user
> > interfaces, edbrowse is an editor-browser
> > clone that runs in text mode and supports
> > enough javascript to pass the javascript
> > ghoon at the door. It has a learning curve
> > and configuration to do on the systems that
> > already have it packaged for users to
> > download and use.
>
> But to use MELPA, why worry about JavaScript
> and the web at all?
>
> Why not just do
>
>     (setq package-archives
>           '(( "gnu elpa" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)
>             ( "melpa"    . "https://melpa.org/packages/"; )))
>
> and then use `list-packages' happily
> ever after?
>
>

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