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Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited)
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited) |
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Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:14:48 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Agreed. What might make sense is to catch the error signaled when an
> executable is not found and turn it into a clear message pointing the
> user to simple instructions for how to install those tools via MSYS2
> (or whichever other way).
Absolutely, this is a slippery slope, but then to break the metaphor,
you need to the view from the top of a slope is always better.
I think many editors would have "integrated" find tools even if this is
just a call out to the OS GUI tool for doing the same. Likewise, spell
checker. A quick "grep" for executable-find gives 300 hits. Many are
languages (i.e. in progmodes), many are text processing commands or
viewers. After that, we do not have that large a list.
I don't think that there are simple instructions on how to install these
tools, other than "re-install this version of Emacs over msys2 (or just
install Emacs via msys2) then add the packages with pacman". This is why
I am asking the question.
On the other question, does excluding mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 and subtree
seem sensible? If so, I will add this master.
Phil
- 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, 2019/06/06
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Stefan Monnier, 2019/06/06
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited),
Phillip Lord <=
- 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
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/13
- Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited), Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2019/06/13