Darryl> Hi, Darryl> Would it be useful to have a package Darryl> meta-faq/overview, that gave a Darryl> short description of the more useful/cool packages? I'm Hi Darryl, I think it would. Why not put that document in a prominent place under http://www.xemacs.org/ instead||as well? A text version of that document (perhaps just via "Save As...->Save as type->Text File") could perhaps be posted regularly on type->comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Are you aware of http://www.dk.xemacs.org/Develop/packages.html , http://www.dk.xemacs.org/Download/elispPackages.html , http://www.dk.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html ? elispPackages.html may need an overhaul, since many of these packages are available as XEmacs packages today. Perhaps we should harmonize the existing resources and complement them with your suggested package meta-faq/overview. Darryl> thinking that novices or people new to XEmacs would find Darryl> it useful, especially for customization. It would also Darryl> help to emphasize one of the strengths of XEmacs (over Darryl> plain GNU Emacs): the easy, one-stop-shopping for Darryl> packages. A lot of it would cover the same ground as the Darryl> sample init.el, but it might be nice to periodically post Darryl> a pointer to such a document in comp.emacs.xemacs. Darryl> And, yes, I'll volunteer to write the initial version Darryl> of the Darryl> document if people think that it'll be useful. Darryl> [ I don't know if I'll have the time to maintain it in the Darryl> long term, Darryl> but I can write the initial version. ] Sounds good to me. Best regards, Adrian Darryl> -- Darryl> Darryl Okahata Darryl> darrylo(a)soco.agilent.com Darryl> DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion Darryl> and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Darryl> Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have Darryl> been following him all day. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Darryl> Would it be useful to have a package Darryl> meta-faq/overview, that gave a short description of the Darryl> more useful/cool packages? Yes, it would. etc/PACKAGES and the XEmacs | Packages node are quite incomplete. What would be really cool is to have the blurb as a required (OK, strongly recommended) part of package-info.in and build that part of the FAQ automatically. That's well beyond what you've volunteered for, but I thot I'd mention it. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.