Re: [PATCH] emacs: Support auto-updating after performing REPL operation.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Currently when a user performs some REPL operation using Emacs UI –
> e.g. installs a package from *Guix Package Info* buffer, information in
> that buffer stays the same, and he needs to press "g" there to revert
> the buffer.

By “information in the buffer”, what do you have in mind?  There’s
highlighting of installed packages, and marks.  Am I missing something?

Pressing ‘g’ removes marks and updates highlighting.

> The attached patches will add that missing feature: after finishing a
> REPL operation, a buffer from which this operation was performed will be
> automatically updated.

What if the operation fails?  For instance, you carefully select a bunch
of packages to install, and then the operation fails because of some
transient networking error, say.  In such a case, the *Guix Package
Info* buffer should *not* be updated IMO, because that would mean losing
all the marks for no reason.

WDYT?

Not commenting on the elisp code, you’re the master.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.