I have some of my own Elisp code in my own directory. Like I have a file /tmp/foo/foo.el with this in it: ;;; foo.el -- Foo ;;;###autoload (defun foo-hello () (message "hello, world")) (provide 'foo) ;;; foo.el ends here I open Emacs and run M-x make-directory-autoloads RET /tmp/foo/foo-aut...

It's time for us to consider holding an election for moderators for Emacs.SE. The last election we held was back in 2018, and since then two of our moderators have resigned (see their explanations here and here). That leaves just one moderator (yours truly) to mind the shop, along with our activ...

I've noticed that @Drew, especially, ends up spending a lot of time removing the elisp tag from questions, and pointing out its definition to users. I don't feel that there's any other tag which gets incorrectly used with such frequency, and it strikes me that all the editing is quite the waste o...

The scenario is as follows: ISTR a previous question on which I have commented that is relevant to a new question, so I search for the previous question using tags and likely search strings. I get a list of, say, twenty results that I then have to look at one by one and try to figure out whether ...

When I ask to close a question because it's not really about Emacs, the radio-button for that says: This question does not appear to be about emacs, within the scope defined in the help center. Could we change this so it says "Emacs" (which is the actual name of our beloved program) instead of "...

I just rejected an edit on this answer: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/61524/262 The edit looks ok, but it changed apparently working code without explanation. The proposed edit is cleaner, and probably correct. But I was uncomfortable with it without the editor providing a cue to either the q...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exchange netw...

Using the elisp tag is not appropriate, but what tag should one use when when wants a solution in the form of elisp code, not a setting a custom variable, or a key-sequence, or some other mechanism supported by emacs? Shouldn't there be a tag for that? Conversely, should there be tags for the o...

Summary: Emacs Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on April 26 to bring in two more moderators. The timeline: Starting on April 19, the Community Team will post a question collection post on Meta. In it, community members can submit questions they'd like to see the nom...

While the actual amount of ripgrep/rg questions is currently rather low (1 exlusive rg, 1 exclusive ripgrep, 1 tagged with both), we should probably nip the usage of both in the bud and make one of them a synonym of the other. There are currently ~6 questions containing ripgrep, and ~16 containin...

term and terminal had verbatim identical tag wikis, so they clearly are intended to be used as synonyms. I think term-mode is also a synonym, as I can't think of a situation where a question would apply to term but not term-mode, or vice-versa. Accordingly, I've recommended all three of these be ...

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Emacs is scheduled for an election next week, 26 April. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for mem...

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Emacs Stack Exchange's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! For detail...

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Could we acquire Stack Overflow's Not reproducible or was caused by a typo community-specific reason for voting to close a question? The description is: While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a way less likely to help future readers. It's not too uncommon for use...

I know that Emacs.SE has decent amount of traffic (given question/answer activity), but I wonder, how come the Emacs chat is so unused? I get it's probably a question of preferences, but I just wonder why other chat room (eg: ones based on programming languages) get more activity than this one. B...

When I vote to close on StackOverflow only one other vote is required to close. On emacs.SE I think it used to be similar (maybe it required 3). Now it seems that it takes 5 votes to close before a question is closed. Why this difference? Seems like there are questions with multiple votes to clos...

We've got an osx tag and an mac tag. The Emacs community is nothing if not pedantic ;), and Apple renamed it to macOS in 2016, so why not a fold them both into a singular macOS tag?

I've noticed that https://emacs.stackexchange.com/help/question-limited is a thing. I've also noticed that we have a user who for a while has been spamming the site with (IMHO) poor-quality (and certainly poorly-researched) questions, virtually on a daily basis when I last checked, and generally ...

Defect Description When the user copy/pastes a URL to a specific comment into their address bar (or clicks on a link pasted into some post or answer or comment inside SE), and that comment is hidden, the web page does not expand it (unhide it) so that it can be seen. Consequence: The user is baff...

See this Meta StackExchange question.

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

As a heads up, we're going to be holding a diamond moderator election pretty soon for the Emacs Stack Exchange site. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain what will be happening and how you can participate. What do diamond moderators do? Broadly speaking, moderators handle things out of th...

Update: I can see the number of upvotes and downvotes now. The premise is reputation >= 1000. But, I still wonder why to limit this feature to users with reputation below 1000. Say there are 3 answers: one answer got 2 upvotes and 1 downvote, so, according to the current rule, it will display...

The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Emacs Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-04-04. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an op...

The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

Moderator election #4 on Emacs has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! For details on how the voting pla...

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