guix emacs mode (was: Re: vim modelines for guix repository)

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
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>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 09:31:33PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>>> Occasionally I use vim on systems to work on guix and other projects. As
>>> far as I see it, there is nothing similar to .dir-locals.el (the per
>>> directory local variables in emacs) for vim.
>>> 
>>> We should include modelines for every file to reflect what .dir-locals.el
>>> does when you use emacs. It's probably an unpopular opinion, but I think
>>> we should do this to be more open to people who do not use emacs.
>>> Support for vim and emacs covers most editors which are there to
>>> support.
>>> 
>>
>> IMO there's too many files to go adding to the bottom of all the files.
>> Something I've been thinking about is learning enough vimscript to write
>> a guix.vim file that'll take care of formatting.
>
> I agree, this could be more useful. The best approach would be to move
> this to a separate project, so that other systems can create packages
> for this to install it.

Different issue, but somehow related: Could we move the emacs
specific settings into an emacs mode if emacs modes can detect
some common structure or however we specify that the current file
which is edited is guix and not guile/scm alone?

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