Re: Helpful in Emacs?

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> After looking into the helpful code I realize it used s.el, dash.el and some
> other libraries which are not part of Emacs, so I guess chances to get it into
> Emacs are slim to none, since all those packages would also need inclusion.

From helpful.el:

;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25") (dash "2.18.0") (s "1.11.0") (f
"0.20.0") (elisp-refs "1.2"))

IIUC, "dash", "s" and "f" are just convenience libraries that could be
replaced with built-in functions.  We have already added some things
to Emacs in recent years that have been inspired by those libraries,
and if there is something needed that is still missing, we could
consider adding that too.

I don't know what "elisp-refs" is or does, but it has the same
principal author as helpful.el.

So it seems to me that none of this is impossible to resolve, in one
way or another.

> So the alternative is to develop similar functionality ourselves into built-in help?

Until we have the copyright assignments sorted, this is indeed our only option.