Re: Name dtache.el

[Niklas Eklund]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> The name "dtache" is less helpful than it could be.  How about
> renaming it to the clearest name we can think of?  "detached" would be
> an improvement, but perhaps we can find one even better.

Its a good point, thanks for the input. I think its current name makes
sense once you know about the package, but it might not be the best in
giving others a sense of its capabilities.

In short I think what the package provides can be summarized as:
- the ability to launch detached processes
- a convenient interface to interact with said processes, or integrate
them into Emacs

I agree that the word "detached" is more clear than its current name. An
additional benefit with that name, which I didn't think about first,
would be that it ends with ed. That would make it align better with
other tools such as dired/proced which provides functionalities that
resembles the second bullet in my list above.

/Niklas

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