Re: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation

[Stefan Monnier]

> I was hoping to have it as both an ELPA package and available in core,
> but there still isn't a good mechanism for that at the moment.

Don't know about "good", but we can (and do) publish GNU ELPA packages
where the code is kept in core (i.e. in the master branch of emacs.git):

    % grep :core .../elpa/externals-list
    ;;  :core     = part of GNU Emacs repository.
    ;; :core URL must be a list of:
     ;; ("cc-mode"          :core ("lisp/progmodes/cc-align.el"
     ("cl-print"            :core "lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-print.el")
     ("flymake"             :core "lisp/progmodes/flymake.el")
     ("jsonrpc"             :core "lisp/jsonrpc.el")
     ("let-alist"           :core "lisp/emacs-lisp/let-alist.el")
     ("map"                 :core "lisp/emacs-lisp/map.el")
     ("ntlm"                :core "lisp/net/ntlm.el")
     ("python"              :core "lisp/progmodes/python.el")
     ("soap-client"         :core ("lisp/net/soap-client.el" 
"lisp/net/soap-inspect.el"))
     ;;("tramp"             :core
    %

It has some rough edges, which makes it currently impractical to do that
for Tramp (for example), but for simple enough cases it works OK.


        Stefan