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

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:

> On 01/01/16 18:25, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus (2015-12-31 12:52 +0300) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you know though, is there any way to get emacs to insert the extra
>>>>> space in description strings and comments automatically (without it
>>>>> messing things up of course). Perhaps we should modify the importers to
>>>>> insert this automatically in the description field.
>>>> The CRAN and Bioconductor importers already do this.  See
>>>> “beautify-description” in “guix/import/cran.scm”.
>>> Hm, is it reliable?  Not all dots specify an end of a sentence: there
>>> are things like "e.g.", "i.e.", "etc.".  Also there may be abbreviations
>>> like "ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing library" (synopsis of
>>> 'libatasmart' package).  Or even things like “<form> ... </form>”
>>> (description of 'perl-html-form') — it should probably be wrapped in
>>> @code{} by the way.
>> It’s not supposed to be maintenance-free.  Descriptions often start with
>> sentence fragments, which cannot be detected easily.  I found that
>> “beautify-description” works well enough to make packaging R stuff much
>> simpler for me.
>
> I'd like to add this to the Ruby importer. Do you think it is a good 
> idea to make your beautify-description available in import/utils ?

I think it could be generally useful to have something like that for all
importers.  Do you want to prepare a patch?

~~ Ricardo