bug#43775: 28.0.50; Feature request: to include EPUB reading into main Emacs

[Vasilij Schneidermann]

> We've been having a discussion about how to make Emacs easier to
> learn.  I think one important way is to cease giving packages cryptic
> names, and start giving each mode or package a name whose meaning will
> be clear to everyone who sees it.

That's a laudable goal, but it's hard to fulfill given the crutch of
identifier prefixing Emacs Lisp is stuck with.  The choice of a unique,
yet short prefix is more important as chances are that someone else beat
you to the punch and picked the obvious ones first.  In my case,
epub-mode.el (no adherence to prefixing) and ereader.el (ereader-
prefix) were already taken.

> What would you think of "E-Reader mode"?  "E-Book View mode"?
> (I am making a surmise here about what it does -- please forgive
> me if I'm mistaken.)

These are display names, they don't tell me how they'd map to the file
name or package prefix.  With "E-Reader mode" there would be high
confusion potential with ereader.el and maybe even namespace collisions
as it defines ereader-mode and other identifiers of that kind.  "E-Book
View mode" might work (ebook-view-mode?), but is overall too long to
comfortably work with.  How much I wish that Emacs Lisp were more like
other Lisp dialects and offered you to write code without having to
spell out package prefixes for every single identifier you write...

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