Bug#861214: ITP: elpa-smart-mode-line -- A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Package name    : elpa-writegood-mode
Version         : 2.0.2
Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba
URL             : http://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line
License         : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: Elisp
Description     : A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs

Smart Mode Line is a sexy mode-line for Emacs. It aims to be easy to
read from small to large monitors. Its main features are:

 * Highlights the most important information
 * Intelligently truncates path name and mode names
 * Allows right indentation of strings in the mode-line
 * Directory as prefixes e.g. ~/.emacs.d/ is translated to :ED:
 * Hide or highlight minor-modes
 * Very easy to configure all colours and variables
 * Compatible with any other packages that write to the mode-line

I am in the process of transitioning my ancient and monolithic
.emacs.el to a more modern and modular configuration.  Smart Mode Line
is central to a project I have begun to work on as a sub project of
pkg-emacsen.  I plan to write documentation too!

While it is similar to elpa-powerline, I am much more confident that
my project will succede with elpa-smart-mode-line than with the less
configurable elpa-powerline.