Re: Regarding the vertical alignment in the record definitions

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello,

indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On 2024-12-05 07:13, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Hi Tomas,
>> ...
>> I agree it's a bit tedious, both manually and also in diffs.  My
>> personal preference is to leave just one space between the field name
>> and the value, that also holds for variable bounds in lets, etc., to
>> avoid the problem (at the cost of some visual clarity, I guess).
>> One day maybe we'll have a general tool like 'scheme-fmt' to run on
>> a
>> file save hook that'd fix the format question for good, like Python has
>> with 'black' or 'ruff', etc.  I have on mind to work on such a tool,
>> but
>> it's low in the list.
>
> FWIW, Im slowly cobbling together some parsing-expression-grammars for
> Guix package definitions.
> Im doing it in the Lisp TXR atm but Im going to create a hybrid
> approach with Prolog to make it more general.
>
> In addition to outputting a unified formatting, Im planning on
> altering descriptions so that that that content is outputted in the
> format Texinfo.
>
> Please dont expect anything soon but should anybody start any other
> initiative then I may possibly some useful assets or details by then.

Sounds neat/useful!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim