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[bug#60753] [PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#60753] [PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type. |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:10:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi David,
David Wilson <david@daviwil.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Now let’s see perhaps what we need to get ‘home-emacs-service-type’
>> merged, and what we can keep as future work. Thoughts?
>
> Sorry for the long delay in getting back to this! To summarize what
> we've discussed so far:
>
> - It's possibly best to use g-expressions for the init.el file contents
> because it gives ultimate flexibility on how one can describe their
> Emacs configuration in Scheme while pulling in files from their local
> configuration folder. Are we concerned whether this may be harder for
> users to understand and adopt?
Ease of use should always be a concern IMO. I’d expect that writing
gexps will feel more convenient than in sexps-in-Scheme-strings for the
target Elisp audience.
> - We'll postpone any work to ensure that comments and #'function
> references can be properly represented so that we can get the basic
> `home-emacs-service' merged for now. Future patches will improve on
> that situation.
>
> Is that accurate? Either way, I'll spend some time today responding to
> the feedback so that we can get this merged.
Sounds good to me!
Ludo’.