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+# Discussion
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+-   Q: which-key was a third-party package for a long time. Is there
+    work to bring any other popular packages into core Emacs for Emacs
+    31+? (magit, counsel, etc)
+    -   A: One package that was being discussed was **macrostep**
+        ([https://github.com/emacsorphanage/macrostep](https://github.com/emacsorphanage/macrostep){rel="noreferrer noopener"}).
+    -   **Magit** is an ongoing discussion, but I don\'t know of any
+        concrete progress.  Generally the best way to help is just to
+        send a message to emacs-devel and keep to it.  Feel free to CC
+        me to help!
+-   Q:When thinking about using Emacs on android I start realising all
+    the other software I also want with it. For example pdf-tools wants
+    a small additional emacs specific program to be installed and
+    notmuch wants notmuch. Any way to get the goodness of Emacs for
+    android with this other stuff? Using nixos or guix, nix-on-droid to
+    make an apk with extra stuff?
+    -   A:
+-   Q: Does package-vc download a tarball from the specified git
+    repository or clone the repository itself?
+    -   A: Clones the repository (that's the -vc in the name)
+    -   Compare with vc-clone (which is now exposed as an interactive
+        command compared to before)
+-   Q: How is the new behavior of M-q in prog-mode
+    (prog-fill-reindent-defun or something like that) different from the
+    behavior of C-M-q (indent-pp-sexp) in older Emacs versions?  (My
+    apologies if indent-pp-sexp is not bound to C-M-q by default, I
+    can\'t tell)
+    -   A: The difference is in the behavior when the cursor is inside a
+        string.
+-   Q:Any plans for Emacs running in IOS?
+    -   A: Probably not. Emacs support on Android is completely free. To
+        my understanding, you need Xcode to build iOS stuff.
+-   Q: I am worried about the situation on non-free systems. There was
+    talk about the Windows and the macOS versions being as good as
+    unmaintained. Where do we go from here? I gather that most users of
+    Emacs are still on non-free platforms and will remain to be there.
+    -   A: I don\'t know about the last point if that\'s true; there are
+        no statistics on the matter. I know Corwin is involved in the
+        Windows port. Someone has to do the work. Eli is on a Windows XP
+        system. As long as he\'s doing that, there\'s going to be
+        Windows some way or another.
+        -   Corwin: accessibility issue (ex: maybe that XP system is
+            what they can afford, or what they need to use for work)
+            Concerning when we hear about black holes in the braintrust
+            for support for these things.
+        -   And the same thing applies for macOS.
+-   Q: I\'m a bit confused about what version of org I should write
+    towards, because there\'s org (in emacs) org (in elpa) org (in org)
+    etc\... Is there a best practice on what-org-to-use when following
+    emacs-latest?
+    -   A: Depends on\... my rough heuristic is if you\'re using the
+        latest features of Org, use the one on ELPA, maybe. Personally I
+        just use the one bundled in Emacs.
+
 
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