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justbur 6eab954afe Use + instead of ! for layer categories 
Helm seems to treat "!" specially in pattern matching, so having a ! in
the pattern string when traversing directories is problematic. This
change fixes #2737, because as far as I can tell "+" has no special
meaning in a helm pattern.

Of course, we can choose a different character, but I'm fond of "+" as
representing "more layers here".
2015-09-11 00:13:51 -04:00
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paradox-compat.el Use + instead of ! for layer categories 2015-09-11 00:13:51 -04:00
paradox.el Use + instead of ! for layer categories 2015-09-11 00:13:51 -04:00
README.md Use + instead of ! for layer categories 2015-09-11 00:13:51 -04:00

README.md

Paradox

Project for modernizing Emacs' Package Menu. With package ratings, usage statistics, customizability, and more.

Here are some visual comparisons:

Regular Package Menu

Regular Package Menu

Paradox

Paradox Package Menu

Paradox (multi-line)

Paradox Package Menu
These screenshots use smart-mode-line, but a similar effect is obtained with the regular mode-line.

Usage

Paradox can be installed from Melpa with M-x package-install RET paradox.
It can also be installed manually in the usual way, just be mindful of the dependencies.

To use it, simply call M-x paradox-list-packages (instead of the regular list-packages).
This will give you most features out of the box. If you want to be able to star packages as well, just configure the paradox-github-token variable then call paradox-list-packages again.

If you'd like to stop using Paradox, you may call paradox-disable and go back to using the regular list-packages.

Current Features

Several Improvements

Paradox implements many small improvements to the package menu itself. They all work out of the box and are completely customizable!
(Also, hit h to see all keys.)

  • Visit the package's homepage with v (or just use the provided buttons).
  • View a list of recent commits with l.
  • Use paradox-require instead of require to automatically install absent packages.
  • Shortcuts for package filtering:
    • f r filters by regexp (occur);
    • f u display only packages with upgrades;
    • f k filters by keyword (emacs 24.4 only).

And some more...

  • hl-line-mode enabled by default.
  • Display useful information on the mode-line and cleanup a bunch of useless stuff.
  • Customization! Just call M-x paradox-customize to see what you can do.
    • Customize column widths.
    • Customize faces (paradox-star-face, paradox-status-face-alist and paradox-archive-face).
    • Customize local variables.

Package Ratings

Paradox also integrates with GitHub Stars, which works as rough package rating system.
That is, Paradox package menu will:

  1. Display the number of GitHub Stars each package has (assuming it's in a github repo, of course);
  2. Possibly automatically star packages you install, and unstar packages you delete (you will be asked the first time whether you want this);
  3. Let you star and unstar packages by hitting the s key;
  4. Let you star all packages you have installed with M-x paradox-star-all-installed-packages.

Item 1. will work out of the box, the other items obviously require a github account (Paradox will help you generate a token the first time you call paradox-list-packages).

Known Bugs

  • On some cases there's an annoying gnutls error message after downloading the star counts gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated..
    If anyone knows how to fix it, I'm all ears.

How Star Displaying Works

We generate a map of Package Name -> Repository from Melpa's recipe directory, some repos may correspond to more than one package. This map is used count the stars a given package has. This doesn't mean you need Melpa to see the star counts, the numbers will be displayed regardless of what archives you use.

Currently, packages that are not hosted on GitHub are listed with a blank star count, which is clearly different from 0-star packages (which are displayed with a 0, obviously).
If you know of an alternative that could be used for these packages, open an issue here, I'd love to hear.