Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi,
spacemacs was mentioned on the debian-emacsen list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/) multiple times, hence let's make an RFP out of it as that's where people look for it first: * Package name : spacemacs Version : 0.105.21 Upstream Author : Sylvain Benner <sylvain.ben...@gmail.com> * URL : http://spacemacs.org/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Description : Emacs configuration to get the best of Emacs and Vim Spacemacs is a new way to experience Emacs -- a sophisticated and polished set-up focused on ergonomics, mnemonics and consistency. Just install it, launch it then press the space bar to explore the interactive list of carefully-chosen key bindings. You can also press the home buffer's [?] button for some great first key bindings to try. Spacemacs can be used naturally by both Emacs and Vim users -- you can even mix the two editing styles. Switching easily between input styles makes Spacemacs a great tool for pair-programming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So far for the RFP and potential package description. Here are a few citiations from the debian-emacsen list which show that there is indeed some demand for this package including ideas how it could be formed into a Debian package: Thomas Koch wrote in https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2015/08/msg00002.html: > Has anybody tried spacemacs? > https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs > > Is it good? Would it make sense to try to package it? > > Actually it's a collection of the best emacs modes with an > opinionated config, isn't it? Vincent Bernat wrote in https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2015/08/msg00005.html: > It doesn't seem a fork. Just a bunch of regular Emacs Lisp configuration > files. The installation instructions only say to clone in ~/.emacs.d. David Bremner wrote in https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2015/12/msg00003.html: > Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > > Then the question is what to do about init.el. The file is quite short > > [3]. My ideas: > > > > 1. add the (patched) init.el to /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp and suggest > > in Readme.Debian that the user replace their ~/.emacs.d/init.el with a > > `load-file' call to the Debian spacemacs-init.el. > > > > 2. put the whole (patched) init.el in Readme.Debian and suggest the user > > put it in their home directory > > > > 3. provide a shell script spacemacs-activate which does (1) or (2), > > perhaps backing up/restoring an existing ~/.emacs.d/init.el > > > > Since I'm new to Debian packaging I'd like to get feedback on these > > alternatives before proceeding. > > What about a script called spacemacs that runs something like > > emacs --no-init-file --load /usr/share/emacs/.../spacemacs-init.el This sounds like the right approach to me, btw. > If that worked, then people could switch easily between emacs and > spacemacs, which feels kindof important to me. Yep. There is already something similar in the FAQ at https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/FAQ.org#try-spacemacs-without-modifying-my-existing-emacs-configuration but unfortunately it works by modifying $HOME which is definitely the wrong way for a package. > Again assuming it works, we could also try to upstream such a script, to > reduce the clash between debian and other systems Good idea! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
