From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Protesilaos Stavrou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Add 'pulsar' package Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:14:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87zglqdrht.fsf@protesilaos.com> References: <87pmmpasom.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87ee359c2e.fsf@posteo.net> <871qz5x72t.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87v8wg1o7b.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14210"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Notmuch/0.35 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 13:18:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nUSbH-0003Sf-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUSbG-0002Cj-E2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUSXe-00086t-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:4b98:dc4:8::222] (port=53491 helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUSXc-0007GL-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: public@protesilaos.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 74F2D4000A; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:14:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87v8wg1o7b.fsf@posteo.net> X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 2001:4b98:dc4:8::222 (failed) Received-SPF: none client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::222; envelope-from=info@protesilaos.com; helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287218 Archived-At: On 2022-03-14, 16:41 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote: >>> 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). I think a standalone package and a patch for 'master' are not mutually exclusive. As I wrote before, we can deprecate pulsar when Emacs 29 is the new stable and has this functionality built-in. As for whether such a patch would be easy, I admit that I do not know how best to implement it. If you or anyone else can write such a patch, please do it. At any rate, I just published version 0.2.0 of pulsar.el. The release notes: . -- Protesilaos Stavrou https://protesilaos.com