One are ELPA tarballs…

…and the other 'elps 'er tar balls!

(Nailed it. Flawless setup!)

  • mech@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

    I don’t understand the joke, but WHY DOES A TEXT EDITOR HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER?

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      7 days ago

      It’s been years since editors started getting their packages. I would guess Emacs was late to the game actually. If you’re only ever used notepad, the manager is there to install additional features such as syntax support for new languages, refactoring tools, navigation commands and more.

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      7 days ago

      Cos otherwise you’d be manually patching and eval’ing extensions every time you wanted to extend functionality.

      As for explaining the joke, I refuse to – my comedy genius knows no bounds, and if it can’t be appreciated in this era of human civilization then I shall wait until the next