Upstreaming?

[josephmturner]

Thank you for the useful package and great EmacsConf presentation!!!

Do you plan to upstream your work into Emacs?

[hokomo]

Hi, thank you for the kind words! :-)

I've definitely thought about it, but it's not on my radar at the moment. While the implementation of the core matching functionality would stay mostly the same, properly upstreaming the work would mean having to refactor a portion of the internals of the built-in query-replace in order to incorporate what we currently do with advice. Specifically, all of the advice currently there exists to modify the behavior of perform-replace, which is a massive and complex function that doesn't offer a whole lot of customizability.

Refactoring perform-replace would be a relatively big undertaking, and I didn't want to attempt anything until query-replace-parallel is a bit more battle-tested and solidified. This is where experiences/suggestions/bug reports from users would be invaluable, so feel free to let me know about anything you (and everyone else) come across. :-)

For now I've decided to focus on getting the package published on an Elisp package archive to make it easier to install and more widely accessible. Once that's done I can maybe think about how to properly refactor perform-replace, if time allows.

[josephmturner]

I appreciate your caution in waiting! Your plan makes sense :)