Subject: ITP: speed-type -- Practice touch and speed typing within emacs
Package: wnpp
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Owner: Julin Shaji <[email protected]>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : speed-type
Version : 1.7
Upstream Contact: Daniel Kraus <[email protected]>
* URL : https://github.com/dakra/speed-type/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: emacs-lisp
Description : Practice touch/speed typing within emacs
About the package:
- Any text can be used for practice typing, it can also pull text from
the internet
- Very useful to practice typing and improve typing speed
- There are no guided lessons like gtypist at the moment
- I frequently use this package and hope to contribute to it in future
Pros for packaging:
- Easy to package
- No other dependencies
- Small size
- No other actively maintained emacs package with comparable features
Cons for packaging:
- Not urgent, as no other package depends on this
Package maintenance:
- Hope to maintain this as part of Team emacsen:
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/
- Sponsorship: I need a sponsor for this package
Similar packages (not in debian repos):
- typit
+ Simpler, but also lesser features
+ https://github.com/mrkkrp/typit
- emacs-monkeytype
+ Comparable features
+ Last commit was 5 years ago (speed-type last commit 3 months ago)
+ https://github.com/jpablobr/emacs-monkeytype
Regards,
Julin
