From: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Proposal to add Popper to ELPA
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:55:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jk8ef0k.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
I would like to add my package Popper to GNU ELPA.
URL: https://github.com/karthink/popper
What is Popper?
Short for "Popup Buffer", it's a global minor mode that designates
buffers as "popups", which means their display can be toggled with a
single key-press. This is useful for quickly displaying and dismissing
"auxiliary" buffers like shells, compilation, help/man, grep buffers
etc. If you have used the guake/yakuake pull-down terminals on GNOME or
KDE, the experience should be similar.
- You can designate a buffer as a "popup" manually or automatically
ahead of time via name/major-mode or any predicate of your choosing.
- You can cycle through your popups with one key.
- You can group your popups by any predicate: for example, by project so
that you only see auxiliary buffers relevant to your current project.
There are other features, and a few video demos at the link.
There are a few other packages that do this kind of thing, but they are
one or more of:
- Unmaintained (Popwin).
- Too limited in scope. For example, the shellpop and vterm-toggle
packages allows this kind of behavior but only for shells. Popper is
generic.
- Too rigid/overarching in their display behavior. In contrast, Popper
does not try to control how popups are displayed: your
display-buffer-alist rules are respected, so that it composes well with
your other packages or customizations involving buffer display.
This package is now 4+ years old and (I think) in a stable state. It
has been installed 16,000+ times.
Copyright assignment: I have signed the FSF copyright assignment papers.
Popper has several other contributors, but each of their contributions
is limited to 1-2 lines, usually fixing a linting issue or typo.
Please let me know if need more information or have any concerns.
Karthik
next reply other threads:[~2023-09-05 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-05 16:55 Karthik Chikmagalur [this message]
2023-09-05 17:38 ` Proposal to add Popper to ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-05 20:12 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-05 20:37 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-09-06 17:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-06 23:09 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-05 20:27 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-09-05 20:49 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-05 21:05 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-09-06 17:13 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-08 17:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-08 21:52 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-09 0:33 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-09-09 0:57 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-09-09 8:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
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