GNU bug report logs - #53797
[PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-app-launcher.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Demis Balbach <db <at> minikn.xyz>

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 11:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Demis Balbach <db <at> minikn.xyz>, 53797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53797] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-app-launcher.
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:05:28 +0100

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Demis Balbach schreef op za 05-02-2022 om 12:20 [+0100]:
> +       "app-launcher defines the app-launcher-run-app command which uses Emacs
> +standard completion feature to select an application installed on your machine
> +and launch it.")

What does ‘launching’ mean here?  Is ‘launching an application’
functionally the same as running it (with 'fork'+'exec' or 'system' or
whatever)?  Does it have extra bells and whistles?

It's a super vague word, e.g. when Xiden has been announced on guix-
devel, one of the words that kept being repeated was 'launcher', but it
wasn't defined anywhere in its practically empty manual. (Nowadays
there's actually a manual and it does define launchers, but it didn't
use to.) 

Greetings,
Maxime.

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