Which packages are those? I' ve only seen scheme-lsp-server, which isn't merged yet
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 1:44 PM Christine Lemmer-Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > > Nathan Dehnel <ncdeh...@gmail.com> writes: > > > ________________________________ > > > >> 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. > > Happy to see this talk get some attention. It does advocate a variety > of possible approaches, one of them Wisp (and the wisp-mode colored > block stuff is pretty awesome). > > If you like that approach and want to not have to do the > parenthesis-balancing as much yourself, there's an interesting overlap > between Wisp and parinfer, which automatically infers the parentheses > from whitespace but keeps them in the actual source. I have personally > never tried using parinfer for serious tasks though. It still requires > an editor set up for those features. > > Since Spritely is also using Guile heavily, we have also spent a lot of > time talking about possible directions for helping non-emacs-users get > going with our tooling. Personally I think the biggest path to success > is likely to be seeing Guile support (starting with parenthetical Guile) > also be very strong in mainstream editors. A lot has changed in the > programming editor world recently: LSP looks like a very promising > direction for this. (Anyway, there's no decisionmaking yet in terms of > what we're doing, it just has come up quite a bit.) > > Has anyone tried using an LSP-like environment and seeing if they can > get something approximating the comfort that Guile and Geiser users in > emacs have, I wonder? I have seen there are a couple of guile LSP > packages but I have not personally tried them. > > - Christine
