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author | Frederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl> | 2019-10-30 11:03:55 +0100 |
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committer | Frederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl> | 2019-10-30 11:17:14 +0100 |
commit | aad81ec8cd158a9e11f4d35fc6022d1300fcb4c6 (patch) | |
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nixpkgs manual: fix white space and indentation
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diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/emacs.xml b/doc/builders/packages/emacs.xml index a9a26882c9cd..9cce7c40863a 100644 --- a/doc/builders/packages/emacs.xml +++ b/doc/builders/packages/emacs.xml @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-emacs"> - <title>Emacs</title> + <title>Emacs</title> - <section xml:id="sec-emacs-config"> - <title>Configuring Emacs</title> + <section xml:id="sec-emacs-config"> + <title>Configuring Emacs</title> - <para> - The Emacs package comes with some extra helpers to make it easier to configure. <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> allows you to manage packages from ELPA. This means that you will not have to install that packages from within Emacs. For instance, if you wanted to use <literal>company</literal>, <literal>counsel</literal>, <literal>flycheck</literal>, <literal>ivy</literal>, <literal>magit</literal>, <literal>projectile</literal>, and <literal>use-package</literal> you could use this as a <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> override: - </para> + <para> + The Emacs package comes with some extra helpers to make it easier to configure. <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> allows you to manage packages from ELPA. This means that you will not have to install that packages from within Emacs. For instance, if you wanted to use <literal>company</literal>, <literal>counsel</literal>, <literal>flycheck</literal>, <literal>ivy</literal>, <literal>magit</literal>, <literal>projectile</literal>, and <literal>use-package</literal> you could use this as a <filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> override: + </para> <screen> { @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ } </screen> - <para> - You can install it like any other packages via <command>nix-env -iA myEmacs</command>. However, this will only install those packages. It will not <literal>configure</literal> them for us. To do this, we need to provide a configuration file. Luckily, it is possible to do this from within Nix! By modifying the above example, we can make Emacs load a custom config file. The key is to create a package that provide a <filename>default.el</filename> file in <filename>/share/emacs/site-start/</filename>. Emacs knows to load this file automatically when it starts. - </para> + <para> + You can install it like any other packages via <command>nix-env -iA myEmacs</command>. However, this will only install those packages. It will not <literal>configure</literal> them for us. To do this, we need to provide a configuration file. Luckily, it is possible to do this from within Nix! By modifying the above example, we can make Emacs load a custom config file. The key is to create a package that provide a <filename>default.el</filename> file in <filename>/share/emacs/site-start/</filename>. Emacs knows to load this file automatically when it starts. + </para> <screen> { @@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ cp ${myEmacsConfig} $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el } </screen> - <para> - This provides a fairly full Emacs start file. It will load in addition to the user's presonal config. You can always disable it by passing <command>-q</command> to the Emacs command. - </para> + <para> + This provides a fairly full Emacs start file. It will load in addition to the user's presonal config. You can always disable it by passing <command>-q</command> to the Emacs command. + </para> - <para> - Sometimes <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> is not enough, as this package set has some priorities imposed on packages (with the lowest priority assigned to Melpa Unstable, and the highest for packages manually defined in <filename>pkgs/top-level/emacs-packages.nix</filename>). But you can't control this priorities when some package is installed as a dependency. You can override it on per-package-basis, providing all the required dependencies manually - but it's tedious and there is always a possibility that an unwanted dependency will sneak in through some other package. To completely override such a package you can use <varname>overrideScope'</varname>. - </para> + <para> + Sometimes <varname>emacsWithPackages</varname> is not enough, as this package set has some priorities imposed on packages (with the lowest priority assigned to Melpa Unstable, and the highest for packages manually defined in <filename>pkgs/top-level/emacs-packages.nix</filename>). But you can't control this priorities when some package is installed as a dependency. You can override it on per-package-basis, providing all the required dependencies manually - but it's tedious and there is always a possibility that an unwanted dependency will sneak in through some other package. To completely override such a package you can use <varname>overrideScope'</varname>. + </para> <screen> overrides = self: super: rec { @@ -127,5 +127,5 @@ overrides = self: super: rec { dante ]) </screen> - </section> -</section> \ No newline at end of file + </section> +</section> |