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@@ -17,12 +17,10 @@ Philip Kaludercic
## 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)
+- 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)).
- - **Magit** is an ongoing discussion, but I don\'t know of any
+ - **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!
@@ -33,16 +31,11 @@ Philip Kaludercic
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?
+- 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)
+- 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?
@@ -52,21 +45,21 @@ Philip Kaludercic
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
+ - 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
+ 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
+- 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
+ - 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.