Hi Ludovic,

> Thanks for the patch!

Thank you for your review!

> I wonder why this hadn’t been done before;
> Nicolas, Alex, Pierre, thoughts?

There is an older bug with xwidgets support which had problems because
it depended on an old version of webkitgtk (I only found it after I sent
the patch). Maybe that stopped others from submitting.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> The patch LGTM, minor stylistic issues:
> …
> Please indent rather along these lines (like in the rest of the file):
>
>   (define-public emacs-xwidgets
>     (package
>       (inherit emacs)
>       (name …) …))
>
> Likewise, for consistency, use unquote-splicing rather than ‘append’:
>
>   (inputs `(("webkitgtk" ,webkitgtk)
>             ;; …
>             ,@(package-inputs emacs)))
>
> Could you send an updated patch?

Is inline here OK? If yes:

From ed2eca1ade73eb6b7c2e8b17541e3e182ade4608 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:29:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add emacs built with xwidgets-support

* gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-xwidgets): new variable
---
 gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
index a488289f1..7e8dcadf9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
   #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo)
   #:use-module (gnu packages tls)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages webkit)
   #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
   #:use-module (gnu packages xorg)
   #:use-module (guix utils)
@@ -210,6 +211,22 @@ languages.")
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))))
 
+(define-public emacs-xwidgets
+  (package
+    (inherit emacs)
+    (name "emacs-xwidgets")
+    (synopsis "The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text
+editor (with xwidgets support)")
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:configure-flags
+       '("--with-xwidgets")
+       ,@(package-arguments emacs)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("webkitgtk" ,webkitgtk)
+       ("libxcomposite" ,libxcomposite)
+       ,@(package-inputs emacs)))))
+
 (define-public emacs-no-x
   (package (inherit emacs)
     (name "emacs-no-x")
-- 
2.19.2

Best wishes,
Arne
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