From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 13:49:58 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <675307112.1056847.1483710598047@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tqp3y69.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thursday, January 5, 2017 3:05 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> One issue that’s often reported is that it’s inconvenient to edit the
> config file with all its parentheses in the installation image given the
> available options (Zile, Nano, and nvi).
> Something like Paredit and ‘show-paren-mode’ in Emacs would help avoid
> mistakes such as unbalanced parenthesis. However ‘emacs-minimal’ takes
> 180 MiB and it would be unreasonable to include it.
> So I figured we could use Zile-on-Guile¹ (yes!) and extend it to have
> something that resembles Paredit, like:
> Of course, it takes more than these few lines to write a real Paredit,
> but still, wouldn’t it be cool? :-)
> What do people (Mike in particular!) think?
Could work, but, there are caveats.
This Zile fork, and upstream Zile, have characters restricted to 8-bits
in most places. It also will not do any bi-directional characters
or double-width characters. For non-ASCII config files, Zile-on-Guile
might be too limited.
The functions expressed in Scheme in Zile-on-Guile are the same
as upstream Zile had. It is a fairly limited set.
Zile-on-Guile is a Scheme, not an elisp, even though the functions
it expresses have elisp-like names. So there is little portability
between Emacs and this Zile.
But, for me, putting together Zile-on-Guile was a fun project. It would
be cool to see it used for something. I guess if somebody were
actually going to use it, it would need a better home than my GitHub.
I could probably help out, as time permits.
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-06 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-05 23:05 Editing Scheme in the installation image Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-06 1:54 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-01-06 9:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-06 13:49 ` Mike Gran [this message]
2017-01-07 11:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-07 22:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-01-08 10:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-08 18:43 ` Mike Gran
2017-01-08 22:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 1:27 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-01-09 9:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-07 16:00 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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