Re: $EDITOR and “guix edit”

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 18:39, Liliana Marie Prikler
<liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Well, I see how to write specific Scheme wrapper around $EDITOR; as I
> > did in [1].
> >
> > Or, I see how to tweak guix/scripts/edit.scm for running specific
> > launcher depending on $EDITOR.
> >
> > Liliana, could you provide a proof-of-concept about « the shell-esque
> > "${LINE}" and "${FILE}" that would get replaced by Scheme code
> > looking for those strings »?  Because I do not see what you mean.
>
> (let* ((editor (getenv "GUIX_EDITOR"))
>        (editor (string-replace-substring editor "${FILE}" the-file))
>        (editor (string-replace-substring editor "${LINE}" the-line)))
>   editor)
>
> with the-file and the-line being placeholders for the actual variable
> names.  You could obviously do smarter things with gash, but let's not
> go there at the moment.

I do not understand how it is different from the wrapper I already did:

https://gitlab.com/zimoun/advanced-packages-2023/-/blob/main/vscode-wrapper?ref_type=heads#L70-99

Cheers,
simon