Re: guix emacs mode

[ng0]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> ng0 (2016-10-28 08:30 +0000) wrote:
>
>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
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>>>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:31:33PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>>>>> Occasionally I use vim on systems to work on guix and other projects. As
>>>>> far as I see it, there is nothing similar to .dir-locals.el (the per
>>>>> directory local variables in emacs) for vim.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We should include modelines for every file to reflect what .dir-locals.el
>>>>> does when you use emacs. It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think
>>>>> we should do this to be more open to people who do not use emacs.
>>>>> Support for vim and emacs covers most editors which are there to
>>>>> support.
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>> IMO there's too many files to go adding to the bottom of all the files.
>>>> Something I've been thinking about is learning enough vimscript to write
>>>> a guix.vim file that'll take care of formatting.
>>>
>>> I agree, this could be more useful. The best approach would be to move
>>> this to a separate project, so that other systems can create packages
>>> for this to install it.
>>
>> Different issue, but somehow related: Could we move the emacs
>> specific settings into an emacs mode if emacs modes can detect
>> some common structure or however we specify that the current file
>> which is edited is guix and not guile/scm alone?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand the question.  What does «move the emacs
> specific settings into an emacs mode» mean?

I don't understand much, well to be honest: nothing, on how modes
in emacs work. I meant that we maybe could move whatever the
.dir-locals.el sets into some external modules/files/set if
possible at all. It probably works for gentoo .ebuild because
they have a different file extension than bash, but at their core
it is bash (if I don't mix it up right now). The sentence below
looks like this will not work at all for guix.

> Also there is no difference between some guix ".scm" file and a usual
> guile ".scm" file.

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