Re: Emacs and Guix (was Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang)

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:34:11PM +0200, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 at 14:09, MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> wrote:
> 
> > when its the same people that push Emacs as the "blessed" way to 
> > contribute (as in the guix manual)
> 
> Just to point 1. Guix is part of GNU – for the good, the bad and the
> ugly – so 2. editors developed under the GNU umbrella are autopromoted –
> GNU Emacs is one, GNU nano would be another one.  Well, for what it is
> worth, I feel such autopromotion as some consistency.
> 
> BTW, Efraim is GNU Guix co-maintainer and demoed the use of Vim for Guix
> development:
> 
>     https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/using-vim-for-guix-development/
> 
> Somehow, when one co-maintainer publicly demoed using not-Emacs makes a
> point that there is no “blessed“ editors – and the part dedicated for
> Emacs in the manual seems just an autopromotion of GNU products that
> contributors enjoy for cooking – dogfooding. ;-).

Oh no! My very embarrassing talk where I was missing that magic 1 or 2
packages from my manifest and then everything fell apart. I think I need
to watch it again myself and then try redoing it at home.

> Contributions in the Guix manual or in the cookbook about how to setup
> other editors than Emacs are very welcome.

This is the big part. I have a setup that works reasonably well for me
and I haven't done a good job sharing it with others so they can see
some of the other options.

IIRC one of the big things I wanted to show was using ctags with Guix to
jump quickly between packages or to other definitions. Right now the
tags make target is a stub, I (or someone else even) should see about
adjusting that so 'make tags' works for the project.


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