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purcell / package-lint

A linting library for elisp package metadata
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Add a "when was this added?" command #181

Closed tarsius closed 4 years ago

tarsius commented 4 years ago

Please add a query command that informs the user when a certain interactively read function/variable was added.

I am aware this package is about linting but it has all the necessary data and it would complicate matters if that had to be duplicated in another package just because this command might not fix perfectly here. The workaround of adding the function/variable to a library, fiddling with Package-Requires, and running package-lint-current-buffer repeatably until we got the answer is just to cumbersome.

purcell commented 4 years ago

The workaround of adding the function/variable to a library, fiddling with Package-Requires, and running package-lint-current-buffer repeatably until we got the answer is just to cumbersome.

I'm not quite clear on how this loop ends up happening, and I wonder whether a potential (or better) solution might be to include more info about symbols directly in the package-lint output.

tarsius commented 4 years ago

Oooch, I was being dramatic. Linting once should be enough.

The command you added serves my needs perfectly and its a nice surprise it even provides history.