Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Instead of adding Magit as is, I would rather add certain components of
>>> Magit to Emacs itself (after sufficiently abstracting them) and move
>>> certain functionality into libraries that are already part of Emacs.
>> That would be great.  There are some features of magit that would be
>> really nice to have available for all packages by being bundled with
>> emacs.  The popup menu system is pretty much the best, for example.
> It is really nice. There is a similar solution in org-mode (the export
> dispatcher) and even in auctex (which is simpler but generally works out
> the right thing to do for you).

FWIW, I don't use any of those things, so I don't really know what kind
of "popup-menu" you're talking about.


        Stefan