From: Susam Pal <susam.pal@gmail.com>
To: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 23:07:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK-5M93sZS9p9ho0su-MBOMkD1kX+3_dsP6MVFCgonA4XGxSOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO2hHWYjQiPApPEX7HrbtY3LgdUAJvfQOJ+bwgY7-BHefBj=Ug@mail.gmail.com>
chad <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am guessing that this is a pun on "evil-mode", but I am inclined to
>> agree. At least "evil" stands for "extensible vi layer for Emacs".
>
>
> Semantically, it's something of a cross between the popular packages
> "evil mode" and "god mode". I do understand that it's pretty
> strongly 'inside baseball'[1], but it's also (IMHO) the sort of
> idiosyncratic package that one would usually not expect new-to-emacs
> users to pick up right out of the gate.
>
> Hope that helps,
> ~Chad
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor)
>
Yes, the name is meant to be a humorous reference to both god-mode and
evil-mode.
If the name needs to reflect its purpose, then we could say that Devil
stands for the *Devil's Eccentrically Versatile Interception Layer*.
Regards,
Susam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-09 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-09 1:57 [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil Susam Pal
2023-05-09 8:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-09 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-09 8:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-09 18:19 ` chad
2023-05-09 22:07 ` Susam Pal [this message]
2023-05-09 20:56 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-10 6:09 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-10 21:00 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-10 21:56 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-11 5:23 Payas Relekar
2023-05-11 6:26 ` Po Lu
2023-05-11 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 6:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12 15:02 ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-11 8:09 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 8:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 9:08 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 9:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-11 9:19 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 9:34 ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-11 10:09 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 10:31 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-11 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-11 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-12 16:19 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-13 7:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-13 9:05 ` Susam Pal
2023-05-15 22:12 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-17 13:30 ` João Távora
2023-05-17 14:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-17 15:41 ` João Távora
2023-05-17 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-13 22:30 ` Richard Stallman
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