Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> 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:
>
>
> Of course, it takes more than these few lines to write a real Paredit,
> but still, wouldn’t it be cool?  :-)
>
> What do people (Mike in particular!) think?

Note that I saw that mit-scheme's edwin now includes some sort of
paredit:

https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/release.html
   New parenthesis-editing minor mode M-x paredit-mode. 

iirc edwin is written in scheme, so adapting their paredit-mode might be
less work than writing our own from scratch?