progress of jed-extra

[G. Milde]

On  8.04.06, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hello G.,
>
> G. Milde schrieb am Mon 28. Nov, 13:03 (+0100):
> > On 25.11.05, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > * G. Milde <g.milde at web.de> [2005-11-25 15:42]:
> >
> > > > Shall we include the "experimental and exotic" modes in the package,
>
> I agree with you. We should not include experimental scripts in the
> package, because...
>
> ...this might hit us hard with experimental stuff and see us ending up
> with programming and fixing these modes.
>
> > Despite of this, I am in favour of inclusion, as
> >
> >   * people that have special needs or want to experiment have the scripts
> >     ready installed - no need to go to Jedmodes.sf.net.
>
> The question is, if experimental modes get used?

I use e.g. ffap.sl and tar.sl on a regular basis.

> >   * with "experimental/" as a sub-dir of the added-to-path "jed-extra/",
> >     activation is dead easy, e.g. with
> >       autoload("eX_mode", "experimental/eX.sl")

This is already included in the current SVN version in 50jed-extra.sl

% Experimental and exotic modes
% (uncomment to initalize, maybe better on a per user basis in ~/jed.rc)
% append_libdir($1 + "extra/", 0);  % append but do not initialize
% append_libdir($1 + "extra/", 1);  % append and initialize

> This might be an idea, but I think we should dissociate from this with a
> note in README.Debian or put these files in /u/s/d/j/contrib.

I would not call this "contrib". All modes of jed-extra are contributions.
Maybe "experimental" would be more clear than "extra", however there are
also some pretty stable but "exotic" (i.e. seldom used) modes in "extra".

> Which modes do you think of? Do you have a list?

You have it as well:

   ...trunk/packages/jed-extra/debian/contents.txt

All modes with X are classed experimental.

The content of .../usr/share/jed/jed-extra/extra in
jed-extra_2.1-1_all.deb is

  /apsconf
  INSTALL
  a2ps.sl
  apsmode.sl
  autotext.sl
  bufed.sl
  bufed_srch.sl
  cdecl.sl
  ding.sl
  ffap.sl
  fileview.sl
  fileview_cmds.sl
  howto.sl
  info.sl
  info_look.sl
  infomisc.sl
  infospace.sl
  pcre.sl
  rfcview.sl
  services.sl
  slang.ssh
  slangtm.ssh
  subpar.sl
  tar.sl
  tarhook.sl
  tarlib.sl
  templates.sl
  treemode.sl
  turbo.sl
  yodl.sl
  yodlfun.txt


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