[Aquamacs-devel] New packages in Aquamacs

[David Reitter]

Guys,
here are  pointers to number of packages, some of which seem to be pretty attractive candidates for inclusion in Aquamacs.  
Better Git and Python support, as well as an auto-complete package. 

What do you think?  Please take a look at the packages if you can!

- David


Begin forwarded message:

> From: René Kyllingstad <Rene at Kyllingstad.com>
> Date: July 14, 2010 2:13:09 PM GMT+02:00
> To: emacs-devel at gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve
> Reply-To: Rene at Kyllingstad.com
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams at oracle.com> wrote:
>> We've seen no real demonstration in this thread that there is a dwindling
>> interest in Emacs by users (which was the claim that started the thread), but I
>> would be willing to guess that there is insufficient new blood in the Emacs
>> development community.
> 
> At least in the extension packages there is new blood out there:
> 
> Tomohiro Matsuyamas auto-complete mode is really nice, super smooth
> inline completion support, fast and beautiful with a complete manual
> (though not in info format, but I'd easily volunteer to convert it if
> it was up for inclusion in Emacs, I have a hacky version in info
> format I'm using already):
> 
>    http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/
> 
> He has also written other coding support tools:
> 
>    http://cx4a.org/#Softwares
> 
> The collection of authors of Magit, a really nice support for git,
> with a good info manual to boot:
> 
> http://philjackson.github.com/magit/
> 
> Python support is also really nice in Emacs, most of it by new blood
> and not integrated into Emacs:
> 
> ropemacs, compiler supported support for showing docs, goto
> definition, refactoring:
> 
>    http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropemacs.html
> 
> It is built on top of Pymacs by François Pinard, not really new blood I guess:
> 
>    http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca/pymacs.html
> 
> According to that page Pymacs was once suggested for inclusion, but he
> never heard back. I'm guessing it needs some person to guide it
> through the process. François intented it to be used to extend Emacs
> using Python, which is of course a controversial goal, but in the
> meantime it's really useful just to provide Python development support
> in Emacs.
> 
> Taesoo Kim wrote pylookup, for looking up docs for the standard python
> library in a browser, with completion in Emacs:
> 
>    http://taesoo.org/Opensource/Pylookup
> 
> Stephen Bach wrote Lusty Explorer which provides replacements for
> find-file and switch-buffer with:
> 
>   - a fuzzy matching implementation
>   - showing completion candidates in columns in a buffer instead of
> in a jumble in the minibuffer (I find this much nicer when there are
> many completion candidates)
> 
>    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer
> 
> Martin Svenson wrote darkroom mode, which is the start of distraction
> free mode for creative writing:
> 
>     http://www.martyn.se/code/emacs/darkroom-mode/
> 
> Julien Danjou wrote rainbow mode to fontify a color specification by
> giving it that background color and changing foreground to white or
> black, really nice, would be nice to have in Emacs:
> 
>    http://julien.danjou.info/rainbow-mode.html
> 
> Some of these are experimenting with UI and different ways of
> operating, so they're not necessarily ready for inclusion into a
> coherent Emacs, but having them in the Emacs Package manager would at
> least make the installation instructions shorter and easier.
> 
> 
> -- René
>