On May 26, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: > Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> writes: >> Dear all sage and emacs (or not) users, >> >> Since I've been working on sage-mode a bit recently I thought I would look >> at trac and try to fix any sage-mode related bugs there. I found #2666 >> which wants to make sage-mode a standard package. >> >> If people want this then I'd like to get it done. But if not then I'd like >> to close the ticket. Personally, I'm not sure it should be standard since >> people who wish to use it still have to add something to their .emacs, and >> hence they still need to know about it and take some action. However, I'm >> open to being persuaded. The spkg is 272K. >> >> [ ] Make it standard at some point in the "near" future. > > This. It is very standard for programs to include relevant emacs modes > and vim syntax/indent/whatever files in their source distribution. > Cython does this, for example, as does GAP. > > -Keshav
That's true. Often they have bash-completion and man pages as well. Which now that I think about it is an interesting idea. Maybe someone should improve http://wiki.sagemath.org/bash-completion and create an spkg. Actually, when we switch to argparse we should just use optcomplete or genzshcomp or something similar. Of course we might still have to write some custom stuff to properly complete certain subcommands (like sage --gap) which do there own parsing. OTOH, most programs don't have an easy way to install optional pieces like Sage does with spkg's. -Ivan -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
