Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > One issue that’s often reported is that it’s inconvenient to edit the > config file with all its parentheses in the installation image given the > available options (Zile, Nano, and nvi). > > Something like Paredit and ‘show-paren-mode’ in Emacs would help avoid > mistakes such as unbalanced parenthesis. However ‘emacs-minimal’ takes > 180MiB and it would be unreasonable to include it. > > So I figured we could use Zile-on-Guile¹ (yes!) and extend it to have > something that resembles Paredit, like:
Haha, that’s very cute! It’s a great idea. > PS: The closure of Zile-on-Guile is 103MiB, but Zile-on-Guile itself is > only 400K and its dependencies are already in the installation > image. Excellent! ~~
