Re: [NonGNU] New package: ctrlf and Questions

[Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 19:40, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> FWIW, a similar package already exists on ELPA:
>>
>>     https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/isearch-mb.html
>>
>> The main difference to Ctrlf being that isearch-mb integrates with
>> isearch instead of reinventing it (and therefore is much smaller than
>> Ctrlf).
>
> Is there any advantage that Ctrlf has over isearch-mb?  If not, I don't
> see why the more complex package is needed at all?

I'm not aware of any advantages (otherwise I could extend isearch-mb or,
more likely, isearch itself).  OTOH there is nothing wrong with
providing (a sensible number of) alternative implementations of the same
idea; in fact, isearch-mb was inspired by Ctrlf.  So I don't have a
strong opinion about this.

>
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 11:56, jflack@disroot.org wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings emacs-devel.
>>>
>>> Apologies if these questions have been answered before.
>>>
>>> I would like to submit a package `ctrlf' [1] for NonGNU ELPA (patch
>>> attached). Previously I completed the copyright assignment for Emacs, is
>>> a different assignment required for this?
>>>
>>> Also I have many more packages to submit; is it preferable for me to
>>> bulk-attach these patches into a single email?
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/raxod502/ctrlf
>>
>>