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Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited)
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited) |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:29:50 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:46:11 +0100
>
> This also opens up the question of whether we *should* include any
> executables that would add value to Emacs on Windows; I hesitate to go
> too far down this route, mostly because maintaining an mini MSYS2
> distribution seems the wrong thing to do.
>
> But some basic functionality that other editors get from the OS comes
> from external packages. I am thinking gzip, find, grep and aspell as
> essential.
Beware: you are on a slippery slope. What about Diff, what about
'man', what about bzip2 and lzip and xz? And if you provide a speller
(I suggest Hunspell, btw, not aspell), then what about dictionaries?
Etc. etc.
- Bloat in Windows (revisited), Phillip Lord, 2019/06/05
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Tak Kunihiro, 2019/06/05
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Stefan Monnier, 2019/06/06
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Phillip Lord, 2019/06/06
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/07
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Stefan Monnier, 2019/06/07
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Phillip Lord, 2019/06/09
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2019/06/10
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Óscar Fuentes, 2019/06/10
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2019/06/10
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Phillip Lord, 2019/06/10
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2019/06/13