Re: [ELPA] New package: evdocs

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 10:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> [About the silly name: "devdocs" is already taken by a MELPA package.
>> That package is quite different and doesn't provide a viewer; it simply
>> calls `browse-url' on a suitable https://devdocs.io location.]
>
> AFAICT that MELPA package hasn't seen any activity in the last 4 years
> and is *very* simple.  Any chance you could make yours be a superset of
> that one and then ask its author if he minds that you take that name
> (basically, ask him to pass maintainership to you)?
>
>
>         Stefan

I didn't want to even support the option to open an URL in an external
browser, which is what the other package does.  But you are right, it
would cost nothing to add this extra little command for backwards
compatibility.

So I just asked the author of "devdocs" package.