Re: [PATCH 1/6] gnu: Add emacs-ivy.

[Alex Kost]

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-06-18 19:15 +0300) wrote:

> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-ivy): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> index d524a7c..c12bf12 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> @@ -1717,6 +1717,31 @@ features found in other packages it also brings many 
> improvements as
>  well as completely new features.")
>      (license license:gpl3+)))
>  
> +(define-public emacs-ivy
> +  (package
> +    (name "emacs-ivy")
> +    (version "0.8.0")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/archive/";
> +                           version ".tar.gz"))
> +       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32
> +         "18nqwl05is71dzswnvpfhlg7b0v3apvbsfxrwab9c0apwavi892q"))))
> +    (build-system emacs-build-system)
> +    (home-page "https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper";)

Since this is more a home of the source code, perhaps it would make
sense to point to "http://oremacs.com/swiper/"; as the homepage?

> +    (synopsis "Incremental vertical completion")
> +    (description
> +     "This package provides @code{ivy-read} as an alternative to
> address@hidden and similar functions.  No attempt is made to determine
> +the best candidate.  Instead, the user can navigate candidates with
> address@hidden and @code{ivy-previous-line}.  The matching is done by
> +splitting the input text by spaces and re-building it into a regular
> +expression.")
> +    (license license:gpl3+)))

This package has "ivy-hydra.el" file and it cannot be compiled as it
requires 'hydra'.  Although it's an additional feature only for hydra
users, but maybe it would be good to add 'emacs-hydra' input here, WDYT?

-- 
Alex