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

[MSavoritias]

On 9/20/23 17:03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> writes:
>
> > On 9/20/23 11:45, Nguyễn Gia Phong via Development of GNU Guix and the
> > GNU System distribution. wrote:
> > > On 2023-09-20 at 10:21+02:00, Csepp wrote:
> > > > It's better if we have at least one *well documented* developer setup,
> > > > than if we have a bunch of (sometimes conflicting) partial docs
> > > > for setting up certain subsystems.
> > > >
> > > > Emacs can be pretty good, once you do (setq make-defaults-not-suck 1)
> > > > a bunch of times.
> > > Or even more outrageous, an overriden Emacs package
> > > with all the good stuff for Guix development.
> > > We already have guix shell that spawns a shell
> > > and guix edit that spawns an editor, why no guix boot
> > > that spawns an OS^W^W Emacs with appropriate defaults?
> > >
> > > Disclaimer: I use the devil editor that goes by the number
> > > of VI VI VI, so take this suggestion with a grain of salt.
> > Can't the guile editor be that?
> >
> > It kind of tries to be already. We just need to promote it and dogfood
> > it more.
> Do you mean Guile Studio?[1]
>
> It was really only intended to be a pre-configured editor for new
> Guilers, which is why it includes the picture language and Geiser with
> picture display.
>
> But as I wrote there
>
>     There are many more things that can be done to make Emacs less
>     confusing for people who use it just as a Guile IDE. I would be happy
>     to hear your suggestions or apply patches to improve Guile Studio!
>
> This is still true today.
>
> [1]: https://elephly.net/guile-studio/
I did yeah. That's why i said we should promote it more to newcomers 
instead of plain Emacs.

I think guile and guix are close that it could easily be a guix-IDE too.


MSavoritias