GNU bug report logs - #60753
[PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type.

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: David Wilson <david <at> daviwil.com>
Cc: "\(" <paren <at> disroot.org>, 60753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
Subject: [bug#60753] [PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type.
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:10:07 +0100

Hi David,

David Wilson <david <at> daviwil.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Now let’s see perhaps what we need to get ‘home-emacs-service-type’
>> merged, and what we can keep as future work.  Thoughts?
>
> Sorry for the long delay in getting back to this!  To summarize what
> we've discussed so far:
>
> - It's possibly best to use g-expressions for the init.el file contents
>   because it gives ultimate flexibility on how one can describe their
>   Emacs configuration in Scheme while pulling in files from their local
>   configuration folder.  Are we concerned whether this may be harder for
>   users to understand and adopt?

Ease of use should always be a concern IMO.  I’d expect that writing
gexps will feel more convenient than in sexps-in-Scheme-strings for the
target Elisp audience.

> - We'll postpone any work to ensure that comments and #'function
>   references can be properly represented so that we can get the basic
>   `home-emacs-service' merged for now.  Future patches will improve on
>   that situation.
>
> Is that accurate?  Either way, I'll spend some time today responding to
> the feedback so that we can get this merged.

Sounds good to me!

Ludo’.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.