RE: [External] : Re: NonGNU ELPA work

[Drew Adams]

> I wasn't sure if there were any other significant contributors.

No, there are none.

> > I've proposed many of the individual features
> > to Emacs dev.  The code is one thing; the ideas
> > behind it are another - there are multiple ways
> > to implement the latter (or similar).  I don't
> > care to re-implement, myself, and I have no
> > special desire to "own" any of it.
> >
> > The main (probably unconscious) uptake of the
> > ideas has been from 3rd-party libraries such
> > as Helm (aka Anything), Ivy, etc. implementing
> > features that Icicles originally introduced
> > (typically long ago).  Vanilla Emacs hasn't
> > been much interested, IMO.
> 
> That is one of the reasons I am interested in seeing if they could be
> added. I am part of a user-generation that's usually to lazy to install
> new software manually, and instead limit myself to whatever is
> available on various ELPAs. Not to defend this mentality, just mentioning it.

The main utility of my code is, I think, as food
for thought, i.e., in presenting ideas.  If someone
finds it useful as is, great.  I use it, as do some
others.  But the main thing it offers, IMO, are
some ideas and experiments implementing them.

> > I don't have a lot of time to devote to helping
> > with any mirroring and such.  I intend to keep
> > maintaining my code on EmacsWiki, when I make
> > changes to it.
> 
> From what I see, this is already being done by the emacsmirror project.

I think so, yes.  But I believe it's a read-only
repo (?), not really a base for community dev.
(I guess the same is true for MELPA and such,
but it's not generally true for 3rd-party GIT
dev repositories.)

> > Thank you for your suggestion.  I don't expect
> > anything to come of it, frankly.  But anyone
> > interested is welcome to reuse any bits of my
> > code, or to look to it for ideas/inspiration
> > when writing other code.
> 
> My suggestion would be to start out with a few 
> popular libraries, such as icicles, and see how that goes.

I don't think Icicles is popular now, but I do
think it still has much to offer that's not yet
offered by other completion "frameworks".  And
the code is admittedly complicated.  And I'm not
really actively enhancing it.

Dired+, Bookmark+, and highlight.el are somewhat
popular.  Info+ is apparently used by Spacemacs
(I wasn't aware of that till recently).  I think
Isearch+ (including isearch-prop.el) _should_ be
more popular. ;-)

Some others that might be useful:

apu.el, cus-edit+.el, dyna-show.el, find-where.el,
frame-cmds.el, help-fns+.el, hexrgb.el, hide-comnt.el,
highlight-chars.el, hl-defined.el, hl-line+.el,
keysee.el, lacarte.el, lib-requires.el, menu-bar+.el,
modeline-posn.el, modeline-win.el, mouse3.el, naked.el,
narrow-indirect.el, pp+.el, pp-c-l.el, rec-edit.el,
replace+.el, second-sel.el, showkey.el, sortie.el,
subr+.el, synonyms.el, thing-cmds.el, thingatpt+.el,
thumb-frm.el, tool-bar+.el, ucs-cmds.el, wid-edit+.el,
yes-no.el, zones.el, zoom-frm.el.