[bug#28060] [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-nixos-mode.

[ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>]

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Arun Isaac transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> 
> Oleg Pykhalov writes:
> 
> > +(define-public emacs-nixos-mode
> > +  (package
> > +    (name "emacs-nixos-mode")
> > +    (version "1.11.13")
> 
> misc/emacs/nix-mode.el says the version number is 1.0. This contradicts
> the release version number 1.11.13. But, I guess we can go with the
> release version number.
> 
> > +    (arguments
> > +     `(#:phases
> > +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> > +         (add-after 'unpack 'chdir-elisp
> > +           (lambda _
> > +             (chdir "misc/emacs"))))))
> 
> It is kinda obvious, but do add a short comment explaining why we are
> changing directory.
> 
> > +    (synopsis "Emacs major mode for editing Nix expressions")
> > +    (description "@code{nixos-mode} provides an Emacs major mode for editing
> > +Nix expressions.")
> 
> Could you add the following line to the description?
> 
> "It supports syntax highlighting, indenting and refilling of comments."
> 
> I have taken the above sentence from
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/misc/emacs/README
> 
> > +    (license license:gpl3+)))
> 
> Nix is under the LGPL 2.1 license. So, nix-mode should also be under the
> same license, right?
> 
> Could you send an updated patch? Thanks!

We have Nix in (gnu packages package-management).
Why do you fetch it again when we could just add
another output to the nix package?
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