Re: [ELPA] Add 'pulsar' package

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

> Hello Philip!
>
> On 2022-03-14, 08:24 +0000, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
>> Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
>>
>>> Good day everyone!
>>>
>>> I have a small package called "pulsar".  It builds on top of pulse.el to
>>> temporarily highlight the current line either on demand or automatically
>>> after another function is invoked.  Regarding the latter case, a user
>>> option is provided to specify the list of functions.
>>>
>>> Other user options set the desired face and control the duration of the
>>> pulse effect.
>>>
>>> Please see the attached patch for elpa.git.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I don't know if you plan to extend the package a lot more, but couldn't
>> this also be re-modelled into a patch for pulse.el?
>
> In principle yes.
>
> I had this discussion before regarding another small package I tried to
> submit: lin.[1] The suggestion was to patch hl-line directly.  To cut
> the long story short: I could not write a good patch, so we got neither
> the patch nor the package on GNU ELPA.
>
> If pulsar makes sense both as a standalone package and an enhancement
> for pulse.el (or whatever) I prefer to have both.  We can always
> deprecate/discontinue the package when the time is right (e.g. Emacs 29
> is the new stable).  In the meantime, a package provides the convenience
> of being readily available.
>
> What do you think?

I have no real opinion on this, I just wanted to bring it up in case you
hadn't considered it before (and also because in this case, at least from
what I understand the package does, it should be rather easy).

> [1] <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-11/msg00442.html>

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	Philip Kaludercic