From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed new core library: alert.el Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:48:28 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87io5g2po3.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446752949 13636 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2015 19:49:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 19:49:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 20:48:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWj-0005lD-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:48:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWi-0004dK-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:48:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWc-0004dC-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:48:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWY-0001Ic-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWX-0001I3-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQWR-0005Tc-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:48:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 98.229.60.157 ([98.229.60.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:48:35 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 98.229.60.157 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:48:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.229.60.157 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pR9ZG3rq1vHGs/Izttas/V50Teo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193329 Archived-At: On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:05:49 -0500 John Wiegley wrote: JW> I'm not proposing Emacs be changed to use alert, only that alert be made JW> available to all package authors as a richer alternative to `message' or JW> `notifications-notify'. JW> I suggest core rather than ELPA because I'd like to encourage wider use of JW> such a facility; but I could see an argument for moving it into ELPA too. JW> Being in core would give justification for adding a section in the Elisp JW> manual on using alerts for rich notification. Or, we could start applying it JW> in existing core modules where it makes sense to do so. Agreed. But if alert.el doesn't support it now, it should have a way to replace `message' so rather than asking every package to change, the user just customizes one thing globally. Ted