Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Nathan Dehnel writes: > I don't use emacs either (because it's so impenetrable) Emacs might be somewhat different from what you know, but this is utter bollocks. Switching to Emacs (from vi) took me three summers. I kept trying because I had seen how helpful it was, and well the statement that

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread paul
Dear Janneke, On 9/23/23 09:37, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Nathan Dehnel writes: I don't use emacs either (because it's so impenetrable) Emacs might be somewhat different from what you know, but this is utter bollocks. Thank you for your opinion but it's just that: a subjective judgement

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nathan Dehnel writes: > 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. M-x modus-themes-toggle RET i.e. hold Alt, press x, then type “modus-themes-toggle” and hit the return

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
paul writes: Dear Paul, > On 9/23/23 09:37, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> Nathan Dehnel writes: >> >>> I don't use emacs either (because it's so impenetrable) >> Emacs might be somewhat different from what you know, but this is utter >> bollocks. > > Thank you for your opinion but it's just tha

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Nathan Dehnel writes: > >> 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. > > M-x modus-themes-toggle RET > > i.e. hold Alt, press x, then type “mo

Re: Version from file in a package

2023-09-23 Thread Attila Lendvai
this may be related (also see the discussion): (current-filename) is #f when guix pull'ing https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55464 i haven't yet double-checked Ludo's recommendation to use INCLUDE, which should work, but it didn't for me. my current solution is this: (define (%read-module-relative-fi

Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang

2023-09-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Nathan Dehnel writes: > >> 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. > > M-x modus-themes-toggle RET > > i.e. hold Alt, press x, then type “mo

The Giraffe; the Pelican et al (was Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang)

2023-09-23 Thread indieterminacy
I would assume that people who dont use Emacs are entitled to document their experiences using their weapon(s) of choice within the Guix knowledge corpus. Sure, consider and discuss governance and workflows... but people complaining that Emacs users have documented their techniques to a bette