From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
susam.pal@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 14:26:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzxfcriw.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttwjbfqq.fsf@gmail.com> (Payas Relekar's message of "Thu, 11 May 2023 10:53:15 +0530")
Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Why use the name "Devil" for this? It doesn't seen to explain anything
>> about the package's purpose. It is likely to put some people off.
>
> Every name is going to put someone or another off, can't really help it.
> OpenBSD has their daemon and there are already funny anecdotes about it,
> but it doesn't hurt anyone.
>
>> If there is no clear reason why "Devil" is a good name, let's choose
>> a better name now.
>
> As mentioned by Susam in previous mail, as well as the repo README, the
> name refers both to 'eVil' (extensible Vi Layer) as well as 'God-mode'.
>
> The name is distinct, and I like it for what it is.
What the package does is not obvious from its name. That's the main
problem with it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-11 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-11 5:23 [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil Payas Relekar
2023-05-11 6:26 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-05-11 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 6:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12 15:02 ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-11 8:09 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 8:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 9:08 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 9:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 9:19 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 9:34 ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-11 10:09 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 10:31 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12 16:19 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-13 7:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-13 9:05 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-15 22:12 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-17 13:30 ` João Távora
2023-05-17 14:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-17 15:41 ` João Távora
2023-05-17 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-13 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-14 4:29 ` Naming guidelines for ELPA packages (was: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil) Jim Porter
2023-05-14 7:47 ` Naming guidelines for ELPA packages Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-14 19:23 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-14 19:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-19 3:49 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-19 4:33 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-05-20 16:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-21 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-14 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-14 22:17 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-14 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2023-05-15 1:36 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-15 22:15 ` Naming guidelines for ELPA packages (was: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil) Richard Stallman
2023-05-15 22:15 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-16 4:51 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-16 8:42 ` Naming guidelines for ELPA packages Madhu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-09 1:57 [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil Susam Pal
2023-05-09 8:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-09 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-09 8:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-09 18:19 ` chad
2023-05-09 22:07 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-09 20:56 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-10 6:09 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-10 21:00 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-10 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
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