From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: salv
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:24:43 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jzez63o.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bktm2vj6.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:14:05 +0000")
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Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>
>> Hi Stefan, et al,
>>
>> I'd like to submit salv.el [0] to GNU ELPA. The readme describes it
>> like so:
>>
>> Salve, v. t. & i.
>>
>> To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
>>
>> --Webster, 1913
>>
>> Q: How does this package differ from other ones that automatically
>> save buffers?
>>
>> A: Salve is a buffer-local minor mode, rather than being a global
>> mode. It is activated in buffers the user wants to be saved,
>> rather than in all buffers (requiring the user to exclude ones that
>> aren't to be saved). It uses per-buffer idle timers, rather than a
>> global timer. It only runs a timer when a buffer is modified after
>> being saved, rather than constantly. Because of these
>> characteristics, it's simple and lightweight.
>>
>> Please see the attached patch to elpa-packages.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>>
>> 0: https://github.com/alphapapa/salv.el
>
> Not to sound judgemental, but considering that the real functionality of
> the package is about 30-40 lines of code, couldn't this be converted
> into a patch to files.el?
>
That's a good idea IMHO.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-18 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-18 17:02 [ELPA] New package: salv Adam Porter
2022-07-18 17:14 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-18 17:24 ` Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2022-07-18 18:00 ` Adam Porter
2022-07-18 18:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-18 19:21 ` Adam Porter
2022-07-19 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-18 23:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 5:43 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-18 17:27 ` Akib Azmain Turja
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