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Very excited to see parsing for ill-defined states! I like your naming scheme of using animal sounds, but just wanted to bring to your attention that Emacs already has a popular package named meow (for modal editing)

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow



Thanks for the heads-up on the name collision!

I just updated my page to acknowledge that there's a different project with that name, and I will rename my unreleased project.

(I'd mentioned Meow online several times, years ago, but understandable that they wouldn't have been aware of it, and I have no claim to the name, anyway. Not only was my project never released, but the community where I mostly mentioned it had/has a problem with many posts from our Google Group no longer showing up in Google search hits.)

> I like your naming scheme of using animal sounds,

It originally wasn't. :) The developers of the Scheme implementation family that's now called Racket developed a bespoke IDE for students, called DrScheme (as in doctor), which did some fancy things. For my much less fancy Emacs kludges, I named it "Quack", as in a fake doctor. The animal sounds only came when I needed a name for the successor to Quack.




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