Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.

[Ben Woodcroft]

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 ?

Thanks.
ben