[Python-Dev] Proposing the deprecation of the pyvenv script (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Sep 19 09:25:48 CEST 2015

Terry Reedy writes:

Am I correct in guessing that on Windows, at least, R and Emacs do not run in Command Prompt?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Of course they do run under Command Prompt, but the limitations of the command window are so severe that almost nobody ever does that, they click on an icon to start. Nevertheless the basic interactions that are always available are command-shell-like (as in IDLE), although there are icon- or menu- driven GUI shells or modes available for each.

In Emacs, the basic interface is the "list-packages" command, which brings up a (text) menu of installed and available packages on the ELPA package repository. In R, it's the package.install() function, which I think has a subfeature that will list the packages available from the CRAN package repository (but I always just go to the website).

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