________________________________ >Hi, for some reason emacs has become the elephant in the room of the discussion on contributing to guix.
>Regardless of one's opinion of emacs, I just want to add that this is itself strange. I have contributed some (package definition) patches to guix, all without using emacs. >I am not an emacs user, so emacs is not necessary for contributing to guix. For what it's worth, the emacs-motif package in Guix was my addition. I don't use it myself. I don't use emacs either (because it's so impenetrable), so I just use kate instead, which isn't a great environment for me either. It has rainbow parens, but it doesn't balance them, which is a hassle. I keep using it though due to lack of time to browse through alternatives. I heard about guile-studio, but it doesn't appear to have a dark mode, and I imagine trying to add one would require a bunch of emacs-style screwing around with it. https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lispforeveryone/ This is the only setup for coding in lisp that has actually looked attractive to me. (Coding in wisp with colored blocks that transpiles to s-expressions) Though I haven't had the time (and probably expertise) to set it up for myself.
