Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
>> Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev,  johan.myreen@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:52:24 +0100
>> 
>> C-h p is neat! (I didn’t know about it — thank you!)
>> 
>> Most packages it shows me are built-in. Do I guess it right that the
>> reason is that most elpa and melpa packages don’t use package keywords?
>
> I don't know.  Maybe Philip (CC'ed) does.

I wouldn't say most, according

(let ((count 0))
  (dolist (desc package-archive-contents)
    (unless (package-desc--keywords (cadr desc))
      (message "Keyword for %s" (car desc))
      (cl-incf count)))
  (/ (float count) (length package-archive-contents)))

it is about 20%, which is more than I assumed, but certainly not a rule.
What I think is the issue here is that finder only lists installed
packages, which would explain why most are built-in.

A different issue is that not all packages use keywords that are listed
under `finder-known-keywords'.

>> Is there something similar for file-extensions?

Do you mean suggestions for packages based on file extension?  I wrote
up a draft for something like that a while back but never got around to
finishing it.  If you want to, I can try to create a scratch/ branch in
emacs.git to make it easier to try it out?

> You mean, find a mode that handles files of certain extensions?  No, I
> don't think so.  But I also don't really understand why you'd need
> that, since the appropriate mode will be turned on automatically when
> you visit such a file.

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