On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:14 PM Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:

> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > <whine>I know, but rifle has sooooo many dependencies</whine>
> >
> > Rifle is truly awesome, I just have to convince myself to trust
> > f.el and d.el or whatever those one-letter libraries are :-)
>
> helm-org-rifle's dependencies are libraries which have been around for
> over 6 years and are used by many thousands of people.  The one-letter
> names are because Emacs Lisp has no namespaces, and the convention is to
> use package prefixes on all symbols, so long package names make for long
> symbol names, which makes programming tedious.
>

This is good to know - I don't really have any rhyme/reason as to what
I use and don't use;  For example, I use Helm which isn't part of default
Emacs.

Thanks again,
--Nate