Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] Matlab-emacs-discuss Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5

[Uwe B. <ou...@ma...>]

>>> "VC" == Vasco Cúrdia <vc...@gm...> writes:

> I don't know how to contribute to this email discussions. So I'm not sure
> if replying to this email is the correct way.

> In response to latest "digest", regarding Github, I find that exchanging
> views in Github "issues" is very straightforward and clean, while the
> mailing lists are very cumbersome to process with too much copied content,
> and hard to navigate.

I couldn't disagree more.

Email has a feature called threading, that indicates you
graphically/visually which message is a reply to which.

Issues just present a linear order of messages. If I want to reply to say
the second message my answer is just appended at the end and therefore
does not provide any visual aid of navigation.

Moreover I read and write email in emacs, so I can use its power, insert
matlab code search etc etc, while there does not exist any emacs for the
issue system. Correct me please if I am wrong.

These are the two main reasons, that I much prefer email/mailing list
over the cumbersome, basic issue system.


> I do not know if Gitlab is better than Github, but Github is way more
> effective to exchange views on issues than the email exchange/digests.

No it is not. It is just very popular and I understand this is the main
reason why people want to have, at least a mirror, there.


And BTW I am also not a huge fan of merging via the web interface, I
prefer to do that on my private machine using the command line and emacs
if needed and not some web interface (but this is just me).


But as I said the correct repository should be chosen wisely (since
there already a bewildering amount of matlab mirrors/forks) and I still
have no write access to the matlab group of repositories.

Regards

Uwe Brauer 

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