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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Andy,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> skribis:

> Regardless of one's opinion of emacs, I just want to add that this is
> itself strange.  I have contributed some (package definition) patches
> to guix, all without using emacs.
>
> I am not an emacs user, so emacs is not necessary for contributing to guix.
> For what it's worth, the emacs-motif package in Guix was my addition.
> I don't use it myself.

I agree.  It’s great that some of us are so passionate about Emacs (and
I’m certainly one of them), but I think we should make sure not to
spread the idea that one *has* to master Emacs to contribute to Guix.

Quite a few long-time contributors do not use Emacs; the tooling (‘guix
edit’, ‘guix refresh’, ‘guix style’) is also there to provide a good
experience whether or not one uses Emacs.

Ludo’.