Re: [ELPA] Proposing to add express to ELPA

[Yuan Fu]

> On Aug 1, 2023, at 1:07 AM, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi all,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Since Emacs 29 is now released, I’d like to propose adding expreg to
>> ELPA. Expreg can be considered a lite version of expand-region. The
>> notable difference is its use of tree-sitter for language-specific
>> expansions. I also took the liberty to do things differently than
>> expand-region, eg, expreg uses a smaller number of expanders [1]; it
>> is easier to debug when the expansion isn’t what you expected; and it
>> only provides two functions for expansion and contraction, and one
>> variable for adding/removing expanders—no transient maps and other
>> “smart” features, nor different variables to set for each major mode.
>> 
>> The obvious downsides is that, of course, it’s pretty useless on
>> anything other than lisp if you don’t have tree-sitter grammars and
>> major mode installed. You can use it in a non-tree-sitter major mode,
>> as long the tree-sitter grammar exists. You only need to create a
>> parser and expreg will automatically use the parser [2].
>> 
>> I’ve been using it for months and ironed out all sorts of edge-cases, and 
>> can recommend it for daily usage.
> 
> this looks nice!  I have a few comments that might be interesting:

Thanks for going over it. I incorporated your suggestions.

Yuan