Re: move-lines.el: a lazy programmer's package to move lines around

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 2:51 PM Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Philip
> >
> > Thanks for the time you took to analyse this.
> > I keep the functions apart because of the corner cases ;-) and
> > because I use it to introduce people into intermediate Lisp
> > programming.
> >
> > Of course it is tempting to have this added to Emacs itself.
> > My main concern are potential collisions with ways of working other
> > people may have developed over the years ;-)
>
> What exactly is your concern here?  Having a command that can move
> around text in an interactive setting is useful in general, but also not
> something that we expect to be upgraded and extended extensively, so
> having it stable and complete in core sounds like a good idea to me, as
> opposed to a third-party package where the user has to first install it
> and then (especially nowadays) be concerned about security risks when
> upgrading.  In case you haven't seen it, I'd recommend taking a look at
> https://elpa.gnu.org/contributing.html, especially the list of "soft
> criteria".
>

If it works well, I'll remove my custom code to do the same.  I also have
the package https://melpa.org/#/move-text installed that I'd remove.
Perhaps you can compare yours to move-text at the very least as I suspect
that's a popular package.