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The [gnu-emacs] tag

This tag is meaningful, but it should only be applied to questions that are specifically about GNU Emacs. What functionality is missing in GNU Emacs when compared to XEmacs? — specifically about GNU …
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completion = autocomplete ≠ auto-complete

The tag autocomplete is being used for at least two things: The general concept of completion, for which completion is also used The auto-complete package How can we disambiguate them?
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completion = autocomplete ≠ auto-complete

While it is technically possible to have both autocomplete and auto-complete (this requires moderator intervention to create the second tag), this is very much prone to confusion, so I don't advocate …
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5 votes

2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Gilles's answers What do you think this site's biggest challenge is? (E.g. post quality or quantity, too many/few closures, bad tools/guidance, etc.) What do you think should be done about it ( …
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14 votes

2016 Community Moderator Election Results

Thanks to Jonathan Leech-Pepin and Malabarba. Thanks also to Constantine, PythonNut and elethan for participating in the election. It's good to have people who volunteer to be guides-cum-janitors. I …
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2 votes

Rename tag [fileset] -> [filesets]

I agree, we usually use the plural for countable nouns. So I've renamed the tag.
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11 votes
3 answers
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Why aren't YOU a candidate in the moderator elections?

There is an election going on to choose our community moderators, replacing the current moderators who were appointed by Stack Exchange by moderators chosen by the community. (The current moderators c …
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7 votes

Why aren't YOU a candidate in the moderator elections?

If nobody wants to step forward, I'm willing. I'm not participating as intensively as I did during the early beta, but I still spend hours per day in front of Emacs and at least a few minutes per day …
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15 votes

Adding `language: lang-el` to code blocks is not adding syntax highlighting for elisp

Syntax highlighting is activated on a site-by-site basis. Should we have syntax highlighting for Emacs Lisp by default? I don't expect the presence of Emacs Lisp to be correlated with tags: any quest …
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19 votes

Should we use the <kbd> tag or not?

I don't think the kbd tag is appropriate for Emacs key sequences, but it's admittedly a gray area. I use kbd for actual keys, for example Ctrl+X. But for Emacs key sequences, there is a standard notat …
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20 votes
6 answers
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Who should our moderators be? [duplicate]

This site has been in public beta for a week, and it'll soon be time for us to get moderators. During the beta period, moderators are selected by Stack Exchange staff (there will be elections once the …
1 vote

Syntax highlighting is almost imperceptible, especially the str class

<!-- language: lang-el --> works for me. Note that the spacing is significant. For more information about syntax highlighting, see the FAQ on the main meta. By works, I mean that the strings, keyw …
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