Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-01 20:46 +0300) wrote: > >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: >> > [...] >>> But then why don't we enable 'guix-prettify-mode' by default? As for >>> me, I don't think all these features should be automatically enabled, >>> dunno what is considered to be a good default: "full-featured" or "as >>> simple as possible". >> >> I’m mostly in favor of full-featured. The Emacs tradition is/was to >> provide something that had to be explicitly configured to get the >> features: in the old days, font-locking was disabled by default, and >> Gnus would do absolutely nothing until you had spent a couple of days >> configuring it. >> >> However, given the wealth of features now provided by guix.el, I think >> it’s best to enable most of them by default, at least those that are not >> controversial. Otherwise, the risk is that people just won’t know about >> them. >> >> ‘guix-build-log-minor-mode’ is clearly one of the things to enable by >> default IMO. The situation is less clear for ‘guix-prettify-mode’ >> because it changes the behavior of Emacs in a way that could be >> surprising to a newcomer. >> >> WDYT? > > OK, you convinced me. I would not be happy if Emacs was not colored > (with disabled font-locking) when I first met it. Thank you for the > descriptive explanation! Now I agree on enabling > 'guix-build-log-minor-mode' (and not enabling 'guix-prettify-mode').
Great! :-) Ludo’.