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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Subject: Re: Snippets for working on Guix
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:28:09 +0530
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:
>
>>> Do you think we could add them under etc/emacs in the repo, and somehow
>>> have them automatically available?  Or should it be in Emacs-Guix?
>>
>> It would be nice if this was available automatically through emacs-guix.
>
> I think snippets should not be available automatically.  Some really
> hate snippets or prefer a different system over YASnippet.  The setup is
> *very* simple if you=E2=80=99re already using yasnippet anyway: just add =
the
> directory to =E2=80=9Cyas-snippet-dirs=E2=80=9D and you=E2=80=99re done.

Ok, that makes sense.

>> Apart from the snippets, it would also be nice to somehow automatically
>> update a package definition -- that is, change the version number,
>> download the new source, and update the hash.
>
> This is implemented as =E2=80=9Cguix refresh -u foo=E2=80=9D.  It works f=
or any package
> that is covered by an updater.

Oh, I didn't know about this. This is very useful. Thanks!