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Do nothing, in terms of closing etc. Instead, if the duplicate questions are from the same person then add a comment to each of the duplicate questions, asking not to post the same question to multip …

At this question @zugzwang asked for my take on this meta question. This was my response, in case it helps somehow: I don't have much to say about [this], mainly because I don't build Emacs and I do …

FWIW, Drew does not start all, or most, answers with ask Emacs. (Nor does he include ask Emacs in all, or most, answers.) Only a tiny percentage of his answers include ask Emacs in one form or anoth …

This is not something that should be handled in a blanket, black-and-white, "general principle" manner. It's fine to agree that: "We certainly don't need tags for each function name" and "Lots of d …

The tag should be commands. It could have interactive-function as a synonym, but I doubt that that will prove useful at all. interactive is a Lisp special form. While some questions about commands …

Tag Emacs, which abstracts from version and implementation/platform, is clearly not needed. (If this were not an Emacs site, it would be useful.) All of the following should be possible tags: GNU- …

We could use the same term that Emacs itself uses: interprogram copy/paste. But of course those not familiar with this terminology will not think to use that. We might use it as a tag synonym (?). I …

Recently JordonBiondo answered the question of what is this site's biggest challenge with this: Specific questions that a Emacs generalist can't answer, usually dealing with Latex, ESS, CEDET, Spa …

Reply to Gilles's answer: I've long searched for tag emacs on multiple sites (specific ones, including StackOverflow), but I was not aware that searching for it across stackexchange.com would also pi …

Is there a new (e.g. grayish) background highlighting for code now? I get the impression that there is and that syntax highlighting does not stand out as well against it as it stood out before. I mea …

You forgot one, which I find myself adding as a comment (and sometimes an answer) quite often: Recursively bisect your init file until you locate the problematic code. And I mention that you can d …

The answer to your question is this: We answer them. Such questions can of course, like any questions, be too broad, unclear, or otherwise off-topic. In that case, we close them or we ask the OP to n …

The tag should be init-file. That is how Emacs itself refers to it, in (emacs) Init File. That node explains what it is, and the fact that it can be ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.el, or ~/.emacs.d/init.el. (A …

Consider this question. I went to close it as a duplicate of these two [emacs]-tagged questions on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/14764130/729907 https://stackoverflow.com/q/22479140/72 …

repositories has the problem that it can also refer to any repository of code, from Jane Doe's GIT hub to EmacsWiki's Elisp Area. elpa is accurate, but as Stefan points out, it might not be recognize …