From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elib -> emacs Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:28:11 +0200 Message-ID: <200706191428.11828.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200706160029.l5G0Tv318102@f7.net> <200706181008.04551.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182255792 30731 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 12:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Karl Berry To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 14:23:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0cjm-00015j-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cjl-0005q6-Ej for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cji-0005q1-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cjf-0005pp-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cjf-0005pm-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0cje-0006fk-FT; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.190.194.156] (helo=karton) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1I0cja3V44-0002kP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:22:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+H1SP8w+fsuSj6lXsgBv1ON84GbUtur17QaKF d3xTDxoarQoSWtKOdoMvXNwwlLv9Pi8e4CeOVChpv0y7EJMFl5 Uk90bPh1Ge6tyHA+LmwMQ== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73300 Archived-At: Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007 12:41 schrieb Richard Stallman: > I presume that tar file is the distribution of our elib package. > It is not part of Emacs. The question is what parts of it to merge > into Emacs. > My attention here results from the package as such and an impression, it would be helpful for elisp-programmers to have collections of general-purpose resources. For novices this might be of special interest. Currently general-purpose functions are written again and again, because existing are scattered and people ignore them. See already mentioned string-strip facilities. In this context also the different name of already merged functions matters: elib's `string-replace-match' AFAIU is easier to call and remember than the (slightly changed) `dired-string-replace-match' now in dired.el. Andreas Roehler