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Re: Bug#828154: RFP: spacemacs -- Emacs configuration to get best of Emacs and Vim



Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> David Bremner wrote in https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2015/12/msg00003.html:
> > What about a script called spacemacs that runs something like
> > 
> > emacs --no-init-file --load /usr/share/emacs/.../spacemacs-init.el
> 
> This sounds like the right approach to me, btw.

But there's much more to do if someone wants to get this into Debian:

Upon start, spacemacs contacts tons of websites to download additional
modules and stuff:

>From the *Messages* buffer:

[…]  
Loading /home/abe/tmp/spacemacs/.emacs.d/core/core-load-paths.el
(source)...done
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Contacting host: orgmode.org:80
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host: orgmode.org:80
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443 [2 times]
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Parsing tar file...done
[…]
Done (Total of 2 files compiled, 1 skipped)
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.
[…]

For a package, this clearly needs to be disabled (by default at least)
and replaced by package dependencies.

> There is already something similar in the FAQ at
> https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/FAQ.org#try-spacemacs-without-modifying-my-existing-emacs-configuration
> but unfortunately it works by modifying $HOME which is definitely the
> wrong way for a package.

That's the way I tried it out.

		Regards, Axel
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