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Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime. |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:04:35 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 24.5.1 |
Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:
> On 01/01/16 18:25, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus (2015-12-31 12:52 +0300) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you know though, is there any way to get emacs to insert the extra
>>>>> space in description strings and comments automatically (without it
>>>>> messing things up of course). Perhaps we should modify the importers to
>>>>> insert this automatically in the description field.
>>>> The CRAN and Bioconductor importers already do this. See
>>>> “beautify-description” in “guix/import/cran.scm”.
>>> Hm, is it reliable? Not all dots specify an end of a sentence: there
>>> are things like "e.g.", "i.e.", "etc.". Also there may be abbreviations
>>> like "ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library" (synopsis of
>>> 'libatasmart' package). Or even things like “<form> ... </form>”
>>> (description of 'perl-html-form') — it should probably be wrapped in
>>> @code{} by the way.
>> It’s not supposed to be maintenance-free. Descriptions often start with
>> sentence fragments, which cannot be detected easily. I found that
>> “beautify-description” works well enough to make packaging R stuff much
>> simpler for me.
>
> I'd like to add this to the Ruby importer. Do you think it is a good
> idea to make your beautify-description available in import/utils ?
I think it could be generally useful to have something like that for all
importers. Do you want to prepare a patch?
~~ Ricardo
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime., Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime., Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/05
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ludovic Courtès, 2016/01/10
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils., Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/16
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/01/18
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils., Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/20