Re: Name dtache.el

[Niklas Eklund <niklas.eklund@posteo.net>]

Niklas Eklund <niklas.eklund@posteo.net> writes:

Hi,

I have gotten around to update the name of the package from dtache ->
detached.el. Here is a patch that can be applied to the elpa repository
in order to update the elpa-packages file.

I am not sure what to do about the name of the branch, if I was suppose
to update that or if a maintainer can do that to make it aligned with
the new name.

/Niklas

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>> The name "dtache" is less helpful than it could be.  How about
>> renaming it to the clearest name we can think of?  "detached" would be
>> an improvement, but perhaps we can find one even better.
>
> Its a good point, thanks for the input. I think its current name makes
> sense once you know about the package, but it might not be the best in
> giving others a sense of its capabilities.
>
> In short I think what the package provides can be summarized as:
> - the ability to launch detached processes
> - a convenient interface to interact with said processes, or integrate
> them into Emacs
>
> I agree that the word "detached" is more clear than its current name. An
> additional benefit with that name, which I didn't think about first,
> would be that it ends with ed. That would make it align better with
> other tools such as dired/proced which provides functionalities that
> resembles the second bullet in my list above.
>
> /Niklas
>
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