From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: installed packages long description. Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <868t14kazo.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86k1kiilm0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86efapi3lt.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86r2enecto.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544580047 16928 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 02:00:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 02:00:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 03:00:43 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtpJ-0004Gs-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtrQ-00016z-LC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtrK-00016r-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtrF-0001Yp-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:02:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46909 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtrF-0001Wa-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWtp6-0003ze-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:00:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xelxixiti7pijzbQZeKcgYQPgKA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231771 Archived-At: > I'll submit a patch for review before committing anything. Thanks. > We have markdown-mode in ELPA, which does a reasonable job. Do we? > We might have to use multi-major-mode in the display buffer, for the > headers provided by 'describe-package'. That should not be a big deal: the buffer is read-only, so it's an easy case of multi-major-mode. Basically, we only need to handle the highlighting and the hyperlinks. > I don't see an "rst-mode", but I guess that format is meant to be > readable as plain text. It's built-in: rst-mode is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘rst.el’. but I don't think it comes with a renderer. > This is less important than getting the correct long description for > installed packages. Agreed. One step at a time. Stefan