Re: Creating an Emacs Home Configuration Service

[Zain Jabbar <zaijab2000@gmail.com>]

Aloha All,

Super awesome to hear from you! I'm quite star stuck.

Thank you for showcasing Andrew Tropin's rde project. I believe the
=features= abstraction have potential and make more intuitive sense
for the design of configurable programs. There is a lot for me to
learn from this design choice.

As it stands, =features= are not in Guix proper, are there plans to
merge them? How will they end up relating to the existing home
services feature set?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 5:36 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Zain, and welcome!
>
> Zain Jabbar <zaijab2000@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > Running =guix home search emacs= returns nothing. I also could not find an
> > email using =C-u M-x debbugs-gnu= about an Emacs configuration service.
> >
> > This is my first email to this mailing address. Please give me pointers on
> > formatting and further improvements.
> >
> > I have attempted to make an =emacs-home-service-type= so that it is
> > possible to configure Emacs using Guix home. This code is extremely
> > preliminary hence I don't even think it is worth sending as a patch. Also I
> > have never worked on a multi person Git project before and do not know how
> > to solve the keyring error I get when using guix pull. I will outline what
> > my code does and what features I would like to add.
>
> I am all for something like you describe, and the code you sent may be
> good starting point!
>
> The rde project¹ by Andrew Tropin et al. may be a good source of
> inspiration.  The “features” abstraction in particular seems to be
> well-suited for Emacs.  But overall it’s reasonable to start small, with
> a low-level approach to combine and configure Emacs packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://trop.in/rde/manual



-- 
Thank you,
Zain Jabbar