[implementations-list] What ships with core GNU Emacs (was: viper-in-more-modes still ...)

Sun Jan 3 04:45:18 CET 2010

2010/1/2 José A. Romero L. <escherdragon at gmail.com> 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.