Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Po Lu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> For the record, I have a proof-of-concept package for GNU ELPA which
> I call `gnu-elpa` and which just adds "most" of the autoloads found in
> GNU ELPA packages (along with the corresponding changes to
> `auto-mode-alist`), such that `M-x eglot` or opening a smalltalk file
> will prompt the user if they want to install the corresponding package.

That's interesting.  I remember someone working on something similar,
but would find autoloads inside any package.el repository (it would
download, extract and cache the autoloads from a list of packages
beforehand).

> It's not as good as activating `eglot` and `company`, but I think such
> a `gnu-elpa` package should ideally be bundled with Emacs-28.

Yeah, that would be nice.