2010/1/2 José A. Romero L. <[email protected]> wrote:
IMHO Stephen has made an excellent point here. And I can understand the position of the Emacs team too: they have a "core" system, and they're trying to keep it as thin and simple as they can.
Are they? If so, why? And anyway, don't they ship more and more Emacs add-ons with each new version of Emacs?
Of course there's a lot of history, politics and... (folklore, maybe?) in the list of packages distributed with Emacs -- were not for that, I bet they'd already dumped off half of it. Don't you think there'd be more sense in promoting some kind of comprehensive, widely available repository of software for Emacs, like the Emacs Wiki?
It would be nice if they promoted repositories of add-on software more heavily, for example, on the Help menu. But I still think it would be nice if viper-in-more-modes got upstream, and if vimpulse eventually got upstream too. I agree that this will take time. That way all viper users will have viper-in-more-modes and Vimpulse automatically installed, and I hope, automatically enabled.