Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.4

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Oleg Pykhalov (2017-12-29 20:44 +0300) wrote:

> Hello Alex, Guix
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.3.4 has been
>> released.  It may be installed with "guix package -i emacs-guix".
>>
>> The main new features are:
>
> By the way, 'guix-edit' supports a new behavior:
>
>     Read symbol at point and if it is a package name, return it.  If it
>     is not a package name or if current command has a prefix argument,
>     read the name from minibuffer.
>
>     (from 'guix-read-package-name-at-point' documentation string).

Oh, right, I forgot about it, sorry :-)

(this feature is also the Oleg's idea)

>> 1. "M-x guix-hash": it prompts for a file, calculates its hash and puts
>>    it into kill-ring (i.e., you can insert it with "C-y").  If it is
>>    called on a directory, it ignores VCS files (like "guix hash
>>    --recursive --exclude-vcs").  Also it supports dired-mode.  Thanks to
>>    ng0 for the idea of this command!
>
> I like this, but as I undertand it works only with files or directories
> locally.

Yes, it is the analog of "guix hash", so it works with local files only.

> Could we do something like:
>
>     (defun guix-download (url)
>       (interactive "sDownload URL: ")
>       (insert (shell-command-to-string (concat "guix download "
>                                                url
>                                                " 2>/dev/null"
>                                                "| tail -n 1"
>                                                "| tr -d '\n'"))))
>
> which will download a thing and paste a hash at the cursor position.

I wouldn't like to have such a wrapper for a shell command as using
"Guix REPL" would be faster.  Although the main problem is: what you
suggest is a *synchronous* command, and downloading files may take a
long time, so Emacs will become unresponsive until the file will be
downloaded and its hash will be calculated.

> We have a 'guix-devel-download-package-source', but it basically the
> same as a shell command 'guix download PACKAGE' which requires to copy
> hash manually.  What we probably want is to get a hash into Emacs
> kill-ring as guix-hash does.

I don't see how this can be done.  Is it OK for you that this
downloading will happen synchronously?  Or do you have ideas how it can
be implemented otherwise?

-- 
Alex