From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Porter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package proposal: highlight-parentheses.el Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 08:38:53 -0500 Message-ID: <8735rcdu36.fsf@alphapapa.net> References: <87mtpk1mi5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14956"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 14 15:40:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEttk-0003jj-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45406 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEttj-0007UV-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEtsP-0006kO-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:59944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEtsN-0000Or-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEtsL-00023e-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:39:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272386 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hi all, > > I'm maintaining highlight-parentheses.el [1] and would like to push it > to NonGNU ELPA. > > Comments? If it's ok, I think I know how to push it (or come back to > you, Stefan, once I've messed up. ;-)). Hi Tassilo, This looks very useful. I think I've seen the package's name before, but I'm not sure I ever looked at it. That may be partially due to its somewhat ambiguous name, that seems to resemble similar packages. For example, I'm pretty sure I've conflated it with the built-in show-paren-mode. And I guess users could generally think it does something like rainbow-delimiters.el or prism.el, even though it serves a different purpose. If I may engage in a little bikeshedding, would you consider giving it a more descriptive name? Maybe something like highlight-surrounding, or highlight-enclosing? That would help distinguish it from other parens-highlighting packages and better describe what it does.