In the recent weeks I've been engaging Prot as an Emacs coach to help with doing review passes over my upcoming ffs package as I work on polishing and documenting it in preparation for offering it for inclusion in GNU ELPA.

Yesterday we had our second session focused on ffs, which I recorded and share publicly with everyone with Prot's permission, so that others can also benefit from Prot's insights and experience as we discuss various aspects of Emacs package development with the concrete example of ffs.

Here is the video recording of our session:

You can view or download the full-resolution video from the Internet Archive.

I addressed most of Prot's feedback about ffs from our first session, and I'll be working on the changes we discussed in this session in the next days.

In the last third of the video we switched topics to discuss a few Emacs-related tangents including adding a 'padding' effect for the mode line and its constructs, and distilling and separating the easily-reusable package-like parts of one's Emacs configuration from the actual configuration of those parts (e.g. the distinction of prot-lisp and prot-emacs-modules in Prot's Emacs configuration).

For mode line padding, here is the snippet I'm using with Prot's doric-themes:

(doric-themes-with-colors
  (custom-set-faces
   `(mode-line
     ((t :box (:line-width 6 :color ,bg-shadow-intense))))
   `(mode-line-inactive
     ((t :box (:line-width 6 :color ,bg-shadow-subtle))))
   `(mode-line-highlight
     ((t :box (:color ,bg-shadow-intense))))))

Take care, and so long for now.