On Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 17:32:29, Matthieu Moy wrote: [...] > > Also it is not "intuitive" for apropos users, i.e. when I > > wand to get an quick overview on a package I do C-h a > > ^PACKAGENAME RET ... > > I don't agree here. If I want to use tla from Emacs, and want some > help, I'd rather try M-x apropos RET ^tla RET, because I can't guess > about the 'x' in front of "tla".
If this does not give you any results a XEmacs user will have a look at the package list ... XEmacs users get the XEmacs core separated from emacs packages (VM, BBDB, JDE, PCL-CVS, ...), there are currently 122 packages. No need to install everything as it slows down start up and eats disk space ... it is like RPMs, DEPs, ... If newer package versions are available you just update the packages, but not the whole XEmacs installation. Also you are free to obtain and & update packages from other sources. Running `package-get-update-all' will update all installed packages. Run it by a cron job and you are up to date most of the time. No handwork anymore. After installing the package "xtla" from the package list, there is no need to guess the name, but it is known ;c) Robert
