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RE: Oop customization group
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
RE: Oop customization group |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:43:19 +0900 |
Drew Adams writes:
> > > Group inheritance can be multiple. This is essentially a tagging
> > > mechanism (in the sense of del.icio.us tags, not Emacs tags),
> >
> > No, it's not, not until the UI reflects that.
>
> You seem to be in violent agreement. ;-)
Well, not entirely. Some hierarchy is necessary, and the tagging
mechanisms I'm familiar with don't really provide that. A few minutes
trying to get help on any GUI application whether from Microsoft or
GNOME convinces me that documentation is not something that should be
left to non-developer users. (I don't know about del.icio.us, I stay
as far away from that kind of Web2.0 as I can.)
> Perhaps gnu.org could have a Web service that would federate user
> tagging, and which could be used to update one's local Emacs. That
> is, local tagging by users could be pushed out, and tags collected
> from non-local users could be pulled in.
This is what I had in mind, although like you I don't really know how
the "federating" algorithm should work.