Re: guix emacs mode

[Alex Kost]

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?

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

-- 
Alex