From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Package naming
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 18:42:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsgfh82um.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426aedc1-fd8d-5708-2164-03a10224a652@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Sat, 30 May 2020 16:31:01 -0600")
> 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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 22:42 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 [this message]
2020-05-30 22:58 ` Daniele Nicolodi
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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