Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 09:12:28 -0700 raman <address@hidden> wrote: 

r> I meant something light-weight like "helm-" as a prefix. I didn't mean
r> we'd use these "bundles" to install a bunch of packages at one shot --
r> that would creat bloat as you say. I meant it purely as a means for
r> reducing the number of entries in the packages buffer.

Oh, that's just a tree widget then, with the branching determined by
node names.

I don't think the current `tabulated-list-mode' supports a tree, and
writing a new `tabulated-tree-mode' is probably better than trying to
retrofit trees into lists.

I'm still not sure hiding helm-* under a single helm header would be
useful.  It feels artificial.  It's probably better to distinguish
between a "plugin" for a package (which you do want to group under it)
and an "extension" to a package (which may or may not merit its own
top-level position).

Ted