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Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image
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Christopher Allan Webber |
Subject: |
Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jan 2017 10:00:03 -0600 |
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mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 25.1.1 |
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> One issue that’s often reported is that it’s inconvenient to edit the
> config file with all its parentheses in the installation image given the
> available options (Zile, Nano, and nvi).
>
> Something like Paredit and ‘show-paren-mode’ in Emacs would help avoid
> mistakes such as unbalanced parenthesis. However ‘emacs-minimal’ takes
> 180MiB and it would be unreasonable to include it.
>
> So I figured we could use Zile-on-Guile¹ (yes!) and extend it to have
> something that resembles Paredit, like:
>
>
> Of course, it takes more than these few lines to write a real Paredit,
> but still, wouldn’t it be cool? :-)
>
> What do people (Mike in particular!) think?
Note that I saw that mit-scheme's edwin now includes some sort of
paredit:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/release.html
New parenthesis-editing minor mode M-x paredit-mode.
iirc edwin is written in scheme, so adapting their paredit-mode might be
less work than writing our own from scratch?
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, (continued)
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Kei Kebreau, 2017/01/05
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Ricardo Wurmus, 2017/01/06
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Mike Gran, 2017/01/06
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/07
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Maxim Cournoyer, 2017/01/07
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/08
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Mike Gran, 2017/01/08
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/08
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Christopher Allan Webber, 2017/01/08
- Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/01/09
Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image,
Christopher Allan Webber <=