Re: Hercules.el vs hydra for Emacs shortkey bindings managemant.

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On August 1, 2021 4:17:50 AM GMT+02:00, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:40 AM Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe this is not what you want. But emacs 28 adds a third alternative with a simpler approach: repeat-mode. It is not for people who want a complex hydra experience and many fancy options.
>> But for the basic functionality it works, is simpler to configure and much faster. Customization is also simpler and pretty clear. And less intrusive showing the bindings.
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>Do you mean this:
>https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/repeat.el
>

Yes. That's what substituted hydra in my setup. It is not so pretty but is faster.

>> Sadly Hercules and hydra seems low maintained these days. That's why I removed both from my config recently.
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>According to the number of downloads on melpa, hydra is still widely used [1].
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Indeed, but it is receiving updates very rarely and the issues reports are accumulating without reply. Sadly it seems like Abo-abo is too busy because the same is happening to ivy, avy and swipper.

>[1] https://melpa.org/#/?q=hydra&sort=downloads&asc=false
>
>Hongyi

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