Bug#692060: remove shell-command.el from emacs-goodies-el
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 07:13:00PM +0800, David Bremner wrote:
>>
>> Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:
>> >
>> > For MY use case I don't even need all that because I can simply replace
>> > (shell-command-make-prompt-string " [%w]%$ " default-directory)
>> > with
>> > (format " [%s]$ " (directory-file-name (abbreviate-file-name
>> > default-directory)))
>> > I don't think anything here is worth maintaining. If this goes away,
>> > should we think about how to not blow up peoples' existing usages?
>>
>> Perhaps a wiki page with config snippet suggestions?
>> Or more documentation in emacs-goodies-el README.Debian
>
> I'm planning to upload another revision of emacs-goodies-el 31 July,
> before 11pm EST. It sounds like shell-command-el could be removed at
> that time, but I'll wait to hear back from Dimo, or two weeks,
> whichever is shortest.
>
> Dima, I definitely want to do all that I reasonably can to help this
> transition go smoothly. Do I have your permission to add your fix to
> README.Debian?
Absolutely.
> Also, would you like me to include your email address when I give you
> credit? Copyright assignment for everything in debian/* goes to Roland
> Mas, Peter S Galbraith, and Julian Gilbey, who put a tonne or work
> into this package. © GPL-2+
You can include my email address if you like. My contribution here was
so miniscule, it really doesn't matter.
dima
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