Hi,

Yann Hodique wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yann Hodique <[email protected]> writes:
>>> - [Ramkumar Ramachandra] for people that don't like the 1.0.0 approach
>>>   of having submenus for advanced options access, a magit-simple-keys.el
>>>   is provided in the contrib/ directory. This is not part of the
>>>   official magit distribution, but some might find it a lifesaver.
>>
>> So should I include this in the Debian package or not?
>
> I'm not sure what the usual debian way is in such situations. For
> sure, some people will appreciate it, so I guess it should be made
> available somehow. But once installed, magit behavior is significantly
> different from the one described in the manual, so I guess it should
> probably not be in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/magit (or more generally
> it should not be in the default load-path).

Hm.  It's not auto-loaded so users will have to "(require
'magit-simple-keys)" in their .emacs explicitly to use it anyway.
Sure, putting it a place like /usr/share/doc/magit would work, but I'm
wondering if we should push it more aggressively to get feedback.
Then again, I'm biased as the author: I don't know how many people
actually (would like to) use it.

Maintainability shouldn't be a major concern: it's just a few lines of
code that won't break unless magit changes significantly.

> Also, in a later version I'd like to render it obsolete by providing
> something equivalent (but better integrated) in magit itself.

Mainly, I don't want magit (or atleast my local copy) to deviate from
the command-line interface too much: I have to use the command-line
interface most of the time as a git contributor, and I see magit as a
nice shortcut for common tasks.

Thanks.

-- Ram

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