Are these Emacs ports still useful?

Joseph Mingrone jrm at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 26 15:25:14 UTC 2017


Liu Dryice <dryice at dryice.name> writes:

> On 24 Dec 2017, 05:29 +0800, Joseph Mingrone <jrm at FreeBSD.org>, wrote:

> - deskutils/etask (non-mirrored tarball dead since 2007)

> This is still fetchable from distcache. Though I admit I haven't used
> it and haven't heard about it for quite a long time.

I see reports that patches were required to get it working with Emacs
21, so I wonder how well it works 10 years later?  Choice is good, but I
suspect that it would be best to point Emacs users looking for task
management to something reasonably maintained like org-mode.  If you
disagree, could you try it out and report back whether it is working and
still useful?

> - editors/tree-widget (part of emacs since 2007)

> This was added for devel/xtla (Emacs mode for tla/gnu arch). Now
> devel/xtla is gone and tree-widget is in Emacs. I guess it's OK to be
> removed.

Removed.

> - textproc/emacs-wiki (last release from 2006)
>  - textproc/muse (last release from 2010)

> They are superceded by org-mode but there are people like me keeping
> old files and diaries written with them. I'd suggest we keep them.

Sounds good.

> - textproc/htmlize.el (500 from MASTER_SITES; fetchable from distcache)

> New version is at https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize, I'll
> update it

Thanks for your feedback.

Joseph
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