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Re: Package naming


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Package naming
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 18:42:02 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> what is the established convention for naming packages that mainly
> provide a major mode? If I have a package that mainly provides
> `foo-mode`, in the sense that all the "user facing" functionality is
> enabled activating a major mode, should the package be named "foo" or
> "foo-mode"?

The convention is to obey the return value of

    M-: (if (zerop (mod (random) 2)) 'foo 'foo-mode) RET

Not sure if we should try and fix those packages which don't follow the
convention, tho.


        Stefan




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