From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Enable 'guix-build-log-minor-mode' in shell buffers.
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:01:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhagpnaz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv0p394c.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 01 Nov 2015 18:46:59 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-01 20:46 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
[...]
>> But then why don't we enable 'guix-prettify-mode' by default? As for
>> me, I don't think all these features should be automatically enabled,
>> dunno what is considered to be a good default: "full-featured" or "as
>> simple as possible".
>
> I’m mostly in favor of full-featured. The Emacs tradition is/was to
> provide something that had to be explicitly configured to get the
> features: in the old days, font-locking was disabled by default, and
> Gnus would do absolutely nothing until you had spent a couple of days
> configuring it.
>
> However, given the wealth of features now provided by guix.el, I think
> it’s best to enable most of them by default, at least those that are not
> controversial. Otherwise, the risk is that people just won’t know about
> them.
>
> ‘guix-build-log-minor-mode’ is clearly one of the things to enable by
> default IMO. The situation is less clear for ‘guix-prettify-mode’
> because it changes the behavior of Emacs in a way that could be
> surprising to a newcomer.
>
> WDYT?
OK, you convinced me. I would not be happy if Emacs was not colored
(with disabled font-locking) when I first met it. Thank you for the
descriptive explanation! Now I agree on enabling
'guix-build-log-minor-mode' (and not enabling 'guix-prettify-mode').
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-29 20:33 [PATCH 2/3] emacs: Add key bindings for 'guix-build-log-minor-mode' Alex Kost
2015-10-30 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-31 20:42 ` [PATCH] emacs: Enable 'guix-build-log-minor-mode' in shell buffers Alex Kost
2015-11-01 17:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-02 13:01 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2015-11-02 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
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