Re: [ELPA] New package: toc-mode

[dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>]

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Thanks you all for your answers!

On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 09:18, dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems that somehow I did not receive the answer by Jean, but the
> feedback about the name sounds useful. I will think about and rename
> the package.
>
> Actually, I adjusted that copyright line already and got rid of the
> compiler
> warnings, but indeed I see now that I did not push those 'fixes' yet.
>
> On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 00:03, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> > This package has been for a while on MELPA now, but it would be nice if
>> it
>> > could be moved to ELPA. The source can be found at
>> > https://github.com/dalanicolai/toc-mode.
>> >
>> > I would like to mention that the PDF functionalities largely depend on
>> > pdf-tools, which is not on ELPA of course (doc-view unfortunately does
>> > not provide the right features). I am not sure if that somehow is
>> > a problem.
>>
>> Since pdf-tools is in NonGNU ELPA, this is not a problem, no.
>>
>> > The package description is:
>> >
>> > Create, cleanup, add and manage Table Of Contents (TOC) of pdf and djvu
>> > documents with Emacs
>>
>> Sounds handy, thanks.  FWIW, I tend to agree with Jean that the name
>> suggests its purpose is more general (more like a kind of speedbar/imenu
>> maybe).  Furthermore the "-mode" part of the name suggests it's a major
>> mode to edit some standard "toc" files rather than an actual tool to
>> extract things for non-toc files and then edit those files.
>>
>> So I'd support a renaming (in case you're out of ideas, maybe
>> "toc-edit/edit-doc-toc", tho maybe "create-doc-toc" is more precise
>> since it doesn't seem to care very much about editing an existing toc),
>> but I don't have a strong opinion about it.
>>
>> Once you've made up your mind about the package name, let me know so
>> I can add it to `elpa.git`.
>>
>> > ready for ELPA (although I guess it is already ready for publishing on
>> > ELPA).
>>
>> Indeed, except for the copyright line which needs to be adjusted.
>>
>> The patch below does that along with the obligatory cosmetic tweaks.
>> I also include the remaining compilation warnings.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
>

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