Re: Snippets for working on Guix

[Arun Isaac]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Do you think we could add them under etc/emacs in the repo, and somehow
>>> have them automatically available?  Or should it be in Emacs-Guix?
>>
>> It would be nice if this was available automatically through emacs-guix.
>
> I think snippets should not be available automatically.  Some really
> hate snippets or prefer a different system over YASnippet.  The setup is
> *very* simple if you’re already using yasnippet anyway: just add the
> directory to “yas-snippet-dirs” and you’re done.

Ok, that makes sense.

>> Apart from the snippets, it would also be nice to somehow automatically
>> update a package definition -- that is, change the version number,
>> download the new source, and update the hash.
>
> This is implemented as “guix refresh -u foo”.  It works for any package
> that is covered by an updater.

Oh, I didn't know about this. This is very useful. Thanks!