From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Where do you get your elisp?
Date: 03 Aug 1999 21:05:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iu6w4olc.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:36:10 -0400 (EDT)"
"Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> I think the current state of elisp archiving is pretty sad. The
> elisp user *and* developer communities badly need the equivalent of
> Perl's impressive Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN).
Well, the elisp-archive was good. Personally, I use XEmacs mostly, so
since I started using XEmacs21, the packages provide a convenient way
of upgrading things.
> To answer your question, I get my elisp almost exclusively from the
> gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup, but I'm always missing articles since I
> don't have time to read news as often as I would like and my news
> server expires articles too quickly for my reading habits. (Does
> anyone know of a searchable archive for gnu.emacs.sources on the
> Web?)
Well, <URL:http://www.deja.com/> is the obvious one. I know the
interface changes approximately weekly, but if you can find the
article you're interested in, there's a link so you can get at the
original article format.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-03 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-03 18:56 dave
1999-08-03 19:13 ` William M. Perry
1999-08-03 19:23 ` dave
1999-08-03 19:42 ` William M. Perry
1999-08-06 3:26 ` Greg Stark
1999-09-24 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-03 19:28 ` Bill White
1999-08-03 19:36 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-08-03 20:05 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1999-08-04 1:24 ` Jeremy D. Zawodny
1999-08-04 8:05 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <wtnoggoorr6.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
1999-08-04 10:37 ` luis fernandes
1999-08-04 11:45 ` Felix Lee
1999-08-04 14:55 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-08-04 16:13 ` Arcady Genkin
1999-08-05 13:50 ` Florian Weimer
1999-08-04 14:40 ` Randal L. Schwartz
1999-08-04 16:28 ` William M. Perry
1999-09-24 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-04 9:05 ` Eric Marsden
1999-08-04 16:48 ` Colin Marquardt
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