GNU bug report logs - #64620
[PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type.

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Ian Eure <ian <at> retrospec.tv>
To: Kierin Bell <fernseed <at> fernseed.me>
Cc: ludo <at> gnu.org, Andrew Wong <brosasaki <at> gmail.com>, 64620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, steve <at> futurile.net, liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com
Subject: [bug#64620] Bumping - Add home-emacs-service-type
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:40:01 -0800

Hi Kierin, all,

Kierin Bell <fernseed <at> fernseed.me> writes:

> Andrew Wong <brosasaki <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Seconding this. There's a good handful of times I've personally 
>> seen
>> people ask about setting up their own home Emacs service on the 
>> help
>> list and in IRC.
>
> I would like to move forward with this as well --- it has been 
> too long.
> I have refactored the patch into two services: 
> 'home-emacs-service-type'
> and 'home-emacs-packages-service-type' (which extends the former 
> and has
> all of the bells and whistles related to package 
> configuration). I think
> that works very well and addresses some of the concerns 
> expressed here
> by Liliana.
>
> There are a few things preventing me from sending a follow-up 
> patch. The
> first is writing new documentation, which is easy. The second is
> updating unit tests, which is relatively easy --- I added 'guix 
> home
> import' support and need to test that.
>
> The big one is addressing Ludo's concerns with the pretty 
> printer and my
> modifications of the (guix read-print) module. Eventually, I'd 
> like to
> implement a generic formatting library that can be used to 
> pretty-print
> Elisp (and other languages), but that's a big project. Think 
> about all
> of the special things that Emacs does when pretty-printing 
> Elisp, and
> what generalizing that would look like. What I have done for now 
> is
> moved my modified 'pretty-print-with-comments' functionality 
> into a
> separate module (currently called '(guix formatters)').
>
> So progress doesn't stall forever, what I could do is move the 
> pretty
> printer into a new module that I'd propose calling something 
> like:
> '(guix formatters elisp)', with a function 
> 'pretty-print-elisp'. It
> would basically just be a stripped-down copy Ludo's pretty 
> printer,
> similar to what is present in the first patch. It's not ideal, 
> but it
> all works well and has been thoroughly debugged over the past 
> two years
> --- phew, it really has been that long.

This seems like a reasonable path forward to me.

Ludo’, would that be okay with you?

Thanks,
 -- Ian

Previous Next

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