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Re: Another 'best' practices question ??
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Another 'best' practices question ?? |
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Fri, 04 May 2007 22:34:23 +0300 |
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Quoth Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>:
> Sebastian> Regarding ELPA, a couple of suggestions if I may be so bold:
> Sebastian> 1. How about 'installed' rather than <blank> in the
> status column.
> [...]
> I chose blank because it looks sort of busy with "installed". But I
> don't really know what is best -- "installed" is clearer.
The answer is simple. How about some font-lock-keyword highlighting?
'Installed' could be in a different colour (in about 3 lines of code)
could it not?
> Sebastian> 2. A hint as to how to run the newly installed package (not in
> the
> Sebastian> description because there isn't room, but somewhere). For
> Sebastian> instance, having installed sudoku in a snip, I then had to
> Sebastian> navigate to the source file and read the commentary to find
> out
> Sebastian> that I had to eval (require 'sudoku') before I was good to go.
>
> Yeah, this is a problem. I don't really know what to do about it.
>
> For most packages, package.el will extract ";;;###autoload" comments
> and make those available at package-activation time.
I did notice a buffer called sudoku-autoloads.el (or something like
that) lying around after I'd installed the package and played the
game, but I didn't examine it closely. I'm pretty sure it didn't
include any clear instructions.
> But I see I didn't add these to sudoku.el :(.
Don't worry man... it works. That's all that matters. Others will
take care of things when it catches on. I, for one, think it's a
great tool.
> If you try the bubbles game you can see it in action a bit more
> clearly: it will download, install, and activate the game, and then
> you can just do M-x bubbles.
I'm afraid I can't spend my time just playing games, as much as I'd
like to ;-)
> Sebastian> 3. 'g' in the Package buffer is described as 'revert'.
> Sebastian> Is this not better described as 'refresh'?
>
> In 0.4 I'm using "refresh" for the 'r' option. "g" is "revert" by
> analogy with dired or buffer-menu -- it undoes local changes but does
> not download a new copy of the archive contents.
Ah what the hell... :-)
Sebastian
P.S. I think it's time you started a thread called 'ELPA - Every Load
Path Answer', or something like that. Actually, something like
that, but you get my point I hope.
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, (continued)
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/05/03
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, William Case, 2007/05/03
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/05/03
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Christian Herenz, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
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Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Robert Thorpe, 2007/05/04