Emacs at Lunch: Programmer Power Point

[@fredriklindlof8720]

Absolutely marvelous! In my daily work presentations and communication are very important and I was always looking for a way to make presentations that I would not be ashamed off from within emacs!

[@elgoog-the-third]

This looks very very cool and promising!

[@mzerone-g6m]

Absoulte awesome ❤️

[@Jedlmind]

Comment for the algorithm. Emacs!

[@finndriver1063]

I would make renaming the package & prefix a subtle priority. As Emacs lacks namespacing, the require'd symbol should be clear in each exposed function & variable. hideshow has BIFs that break this and it annoys me to no end, not to mention in external packages. While prefixing 'macro-slides-' would be okay, Emacs has a long history of catchy titles and double entendre. My best attempt is 'waterslide', tagline: Slideshows that won't interrupt the flow. I've never claimed to be good at wordplay. I find the method names confusing, and I'll make some suggestions although I should read the code first. In my mind, 'ms-init' should be 'ms-begin-action', matching 'ms-end-action'; and 'ms-final' should be named for it's effect, 'ms-cleanup' or 'waterslide-action-cleanup'. Similarly, with the hooks: 'ms-start-hook' sounds like it might have something to do with the 'ms-init/ms-end' methods. 'ms-begin-presentation-hook' or 'waterslide-present-hook', perhaps (if you chose M-x waterslide-present as your command). 'ms-narrow-hook' is probably fine, but 'ms-slide-hook' or 'waterslide-step-slide-hook' would be clearer and match with 'ms-after-last-slide-hook'. Consider aliasing or renaming 'ms-after-last-slide-hook' to 'ms-end-presentation-hook'. Also, I'm always torn on start/end vs. begin/end. The latter sounds better to me. Nearly nobody uses 'finish', though. Finally, thank you for the videos, they're fun and I love learning modern patterns for Emacs Lisp.

[@Positron-gv7do]

I like begin presentation and end presentation. One of the main name collisions is the method `ms-step-forward` and the command `ms-forward`. Maybe... `ms-presentation-foward`. for the command I like begin instead of init. Since begin and end are quite common in Elisp, it makes the role of final more obvious. Is final still ambiguous to likely users? Hard for me to guess. `attr_methods` is definitely wrong. I mainly export org to texinfo, so I forgot that these are supposed to be namespaced over the export backend. In this case, macro slides is kind of like an export backend. If you have more thoughts, catch up in a few days with an issue. A new draft of the naming should be in place by then.