Re: [ELPA] Want to submit two packages "ilist" and "blist"

[Durand]

>>>>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:33:01 -0500, Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> said:

    Adam> Durand <mmemmew@gmail.com> writes:
    >> I have written two Emacs pacakges, called "ilist" and "blist"
    >> (the former is the "engine", and hence a dependency, of the
    >> latter).  Now I am thinking about submitting the packages to GNU
    >> ELPA.
    >> 
    >> The package "blist" is to display the list of bookmarks, in the
    >> sense of "bookmark.el", in a similar way as Ibuffer.

    Adam> I see in your readme that you mention grouping.  Rather than
    Adam> reimplementing that, you may be interested in what I've done
    Adam> in taxy.el.  For example, it makes it trivial to define a
    Adam> custom grouping DSL and a custom column-based view using
    Adam> magit-section.el.  See the example "bookmarky" application:

    Adam> https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el/blob/master/examples/bookmarky.el

    Adam> It ends up looking like this:

    Adam> 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alphapapa/taxy.el/master/images/bookmarky.png

Thanks for the information.  I did not know about taxy.el previously.
It seems to be an interesting library.  It reminds me of hierarchy.el by
the way: <https://github.com/DamienCassou/hierarchy>.

    Adam> Grouping keys and display columns are defined with simple
    Adam> top-level forms, and these keys and columns can be customized
    Adam> by users by using the same top-level forms in their configs.
    Adam> For example:

    Adam>   (bookmarky-define-key filename (&key name regexp) "Return
    Adam> NAME if bookmark ITEM's filename matches REGEXP, or without
    Adam> REGEXP, the filename."  (when-let (filename (bookmark-prop-get
    Adam> item 'filename)) (pcase regexp (`nil filename) (_ (when
    Adam> (string-match-p regexp filename) name)))))

    Adam>   (bookmarky-define-column "File" (:max-width nil :face
    Adam> font-lock-doc-face) (bookmark-prop-get item 'filename))

    Adam> Then a grouping "program" written in the DSL looks like:

    Adam>   (defvar bookmarky-default-keys '( ((handler
    Adam> '(burly-bookmark-handler) :name "Burly")) ((directory
    Adam> "~/src/emacs/" :name "Emacs" :descendant-p t))) "Default
    Adam> keys.")

    Adam> Turning the resulting hierarchy into the magit-section-based
    Adam> view is done with a few functions in a standard way, so
    Adam> there's very little bespoke code to write.

    Adam> I'll probably publish taxy-magit-section.el on ELPA as a
    Adam> separate package after it matures a bit more.

>From what I can tell, the taxy.el plays the role of "ilist" in "blist",
right?

I think I will enjoy reading it afterwards.

-- 
Durand