From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Package naming
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 16:58:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98812914-321f-6666-9647-6dcc3f51d253@grinta.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsgfh82um.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 30-05-2020 16:42, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> what is the established convention for naming packages that mainly
>> provide a major mode? If I have a package that mainly provides
>> `foo-mode`, in the sense that all the "user facing" functionality is
>> enabled activating a major mode, should the package be named "foo" or
>> "foo-mode"?
>
> The convention is to obey the return value of
>
> M-: (if (zerop (mod (random) 2)) 'foo 'foo-mode) RET
>
> Not sure if we should try and fix those packages which don't follow the
> convention, tho.
I agree, it may be a never ending job.
Cheers,
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-30 22:31 Package naming Daniele Nicolodi
2020-05-30 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-30 22:58 ` Daniele Nicolodi [this message]
2020-06-06 21:56 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-06-06 22:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-06 23:11 ` Drew Adams
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