Re: [PATCH 1/6] gnu: Add emacs-ivy.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus (2016-06-18 19:15 +0300) wrote:
>
>> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-ivy): New variable.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
>> index d524a7c..c12bf12 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
>> @@ -1717,6 +1717,31 @@ features found in other packages it also brings many improvements as
>>  well as completely new features.")
>>      (license license:gpl3+)))
>>  
>> +(define-public emacs-ivy
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "emacs-ivy")
>> +    (version "0.8.0")
>> +    (source
>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/archive/"
>> +                           version ".tar.gz"))
>> +       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
>> +       (sha256
>> +        (base32
>> +         "18nqwl05is71dzswnvpfhlg7b0v3apvbsfxrwab9c0apwavi892q"))))
>> +    (build-system emacs-build-system)
>> +    (home-page "https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper")
>
> Since this is more a home of the source code, perhaps it would make
> sense to point to "http://oremacs.com/swiper/" as the homepage?

Okay, makes sense.

>
>> +    (synopsis "Incremental vertical completion")
>> +    (description
>> +     "This package provides @code{ivy-read} as an alternative to
>> +@code{completing-read} and similar functions.  No attempt is made to determine
>> +the best candidate.  Instead, the user can navigate candidates with
>> +@code{ivy-next-line} and @code{ivy-previous-line}.  The matching is done by
>> +splitting the input text by spaces and re-building it into a regular
>> +expression.")
>> +    (license license:gpl3+)))
>
> This package has "ivy-hydra.el" file and it cannot be compiled as it
> requires 'hydra'.  Although it's an additional feature only for hydra
> users, but maybe it would be good to add 'emacs-hydra' input here, WDYT?

Okay, I’ll reorder the patches and add emacs-hydra as a propagated
input.

~~ Ricardo