Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-24 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On So, 2014-11-23 at 07:32 -0500, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: In that light and as the ports maintainer of math/ess, the Emacs speaks statistics R-mode of emacs, I am asking myself specifically whether I add any real benefit in maintaining

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-24 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Mo, 2014-11-24 at 00:48 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:32:14AM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-24 Thread Klaus T. Aehlig
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:12:06AM -0800, Perry Hutchison wrote: Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: ... Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor ... Perhaps someone should port vi to it? That actually already happened quite a while ago. Just add (require

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[trimmed to a single mailing list] Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de writes: Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor, has developed a package manager for Emacs extensions. Some good repos exist, packages are usually installed to ~/.emacs.d and I

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Perry Hutchison
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: ... Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor ... Perhaps someone should port vi to it? [dons flame-proof suit] ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor, has developed a package

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: In that light and as the ports maintainer of math/ess, the Emacs speaks statistics R-mode of emacs, I am asking myself specifically whether I add any real benefit in maintaining math/ess. More generally, I am interested in community answers as

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/23/14 02:05, Fabian Keil wrote: Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24,

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/23/14 00:32, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. ... More generally, I am interested in community answers as to whether it is really useful to maintain

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:32:14AM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor,

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-23 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On So, 2014-11-23 at 00:12 -0800, Perry Hutchison wrote: Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: ... Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor ... Perhaps someone should port vi to it? [dons flame-proof suit] That's not necessary. You can run vi in

value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-22 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent editor, has developed a package manager for Emacs extensions. Some good repos

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

2014-11-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2014 at 0:32:14 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent