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Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime. |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Jan 2016 09:25:52 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 24.5.1 |
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.
~~ Ricardo
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime., Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime., Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/01
- [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/05
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ludovic Courtès, 2016/01/10
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils. (was Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add emacs-slime.), Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] import: Move beautify description from cran to utils., Ben Woodcroft, 2016/01/16