Grey Matter

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> ~ writes:
>  > So when I install Xemacs there are useless items on the Tools menu
>  > marked "Games" and "Calendar".  How do I access them? They are all
>  > greyed out. Or if they don't really exist, why are they even
>  > listed?
>
> They're listed because in a standard installation, they're present.
> They are categories of application, and I guess you don't have the
> relevant Lisp packages installed.
>
> How you install additional Lisp packages depends on how you installed
> XEmacs and what kind of system you are using.

What use is a package system when the user interface is cluttered up by
everything that _could_ be installed?

It would appear a good idea to me if the respective menu entries were
added by autoloads contained in the package.

The package autoloads are expensive in startup time; getting some
payback over monolithicness would seem appropriate.

-- 
David Kastrup