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RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:58:39 -0700 (PDT) |
> This would be nice to fix. `finder-known-keywords' looks like the
> place to start. Package filtering is only indirectly connected to the
> value of that variable, though.
>
> Filtering is done on keywords actually found in the packages. If
> package authors used `auto-insert' when creating their packages,
> they would be prompted to add keywords from `finder-known-keywords'.
> That leaves a lot of wiggle room for the insertion of random keywords.
I'm not sure what you meant by the last part, so this comment might
be unrelated to your post. But I would like to remind us all that
`finder' functionality is not limited to the keywords found in
`finder-known-keywords'.
Users can use any keywords they like in their library headers.
I would not like to see `finder.el' gravitate toward imposing some
particular set of keywords or expecting only some particular set.
> In order to make filtering useful, it seems like it would be
> worthwhile fleshing out the taxonomy of `finder-known-keywords',
> and enforcing it -- ie, keywords not in that variable would be
> ignored by package filtering.
I'm not sure I would object to something like that being done only
"by package filtering". But I would object to changing the point
of `finder.el' so that it generally becomes more rigid in that way.
Even for only "package filtering", I have the question of why.
Why should package filtering be limited to some predefined list
of keywords? Just why should "keywords not in that variable...
be ignored by package filtering"?
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, (continued)
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, raman, 2015/04/19
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/04/19
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, raman, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, raman, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/18
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Alexis, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/20
- RE: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Drew Adams, 2015/04/20
- Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu, Tassilo Horn, 2015/04/21