[PATCHES] Fix some ‘guix edit’ bad assumptions.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hi,

As every sane person I use Emacs for my editing.  In order to have the
features of ‘emacsclient’ (fast startup + buffer sharing) and the
simplicity of ‘emacs’ (no daemon management), I have in my environment:

  export VISUAL="emacsclient --alternate-editor=''"

this automatically starts the daemon if it is not already running and
then launches ‘emacsclient’.  However, this does not work with ‘guix
edit’ because a single word command is assumed for $VISUAL and $EDITOR.

so here is a fix:

0001-edit-Allow-command-line-arguments-in-VISUAL-and-EDIT.patch
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Moreover I think that assuming a running emacs daemon by default if
$VISUAL and $EDITOR are not set is not an obvious decision.  My first
intuition would be to use GNU Nano which is often installed on GNU
systems.  But after trying to edit a package with it... I have come to
the conclusion that it was more reasonable to use 'emacs' instead.

I have no strong opinion on this (other than being against defaulting to
VI of course).  ;)

0002-edit-Don-t-assume-that-an-emacs-daemon-is-running.patch
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TIA,

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Mathieu Lirzin