Hi Jean-Christophe! Sorry, I forgot to address the other things you mentioned.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 02:33 -05:00, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > The discussion is not about changing anything for people who already > use one or the other mode. It is about proposing something easy to > use *and* not confusing to new comers. OK. I understand. There were also some specific questions or issues that you noticed (e.g., on Debian-like systems) in another email you sent which I took to mean that you did not quite understand how emacs packages can be installed and how emacs can (maybe, should) be configured. I tried to answer that in another email I just sent. Sorry, if I was off base -- was just trying to help. If you already understand all that; then, fantastic. > Besides for the merits of the various modes and the merits of having > multiple modes, I think there is a big documentation issue. It is > easily fixable and since that information is on the wiki that's > something I can fix. That's great. Always strike when the motivation is there, I always say! Glad you are thinking about that. > Then there is literally a ressource visibility issue at least on > Debian. This one is not easy to fix and requires information from > the Debian packager. I can ask for more information and see if there > is a relatively easy fix. The "resource visibility issue" that you described (in your other email) sounded like a misconfigured emacs setup to me. But I'm sure you will look into that to rule out that possibility. Thank you for looking into potential Debian issues. Cheers, --Rick On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:01 -05:00, r...@tamos.net wrote: > Hi Jean-Christophe! > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 02:33 -05:00, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > There is also a maintenance issue for the official mode. From what I > > understand, there seems to be 3 different versions of that mode and the > > authors are not active anymore (and have not been for 6 years)... > > That's ok. They are working fine for us for years anyway. Many of us > (including me) know elisp and can fix them, but honestly, there has > never been an issue with them. > > > In all honesty, if picolisp had not been maintained and updated for 6 > > years, would you consider using it ? I don't think you would. > > I agree. But also,. I would argue that that's not exactly an > apples-to-apples comparison. Editor configurations are much easier to > work with and much less complex than language and virtual machine > implementations. I'll leave the latter to Alex. :) > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
