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diff --git a/nixpkgs/doc/builders/packages/emacs.section.md b/nixpkgs/doc/builders/packages/emacs.section.md index a202606966c0..d46f890858f4 100644 --- a/nixpkgs/doc/builders/packages/emacs.section.md +++ b/nixpkgs/doc/builders/packages/emacs.section.md @@ -103,14 +103,14 @@ You can install it like any other packages via `nix-env -iA myEmacs`. However, t This provides a fairly full Emacs start file. It will load in addition to the user's personal config. You can always disable it by passing `-q` to the Emacs command. -Sometimes `emacs.pkgs.withPackages` 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 `pkgs/top-level/emacs-packages.nix`). But you can't control these priorities when some package is installed as a dependency. You can override it on a 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 `overrideScope'`. +Sometimes `emacs.pkgs.withPackages` 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 `pkgs/top-level/emacs-packages.nix`). But you can't control these priorities when some package is installed as a dependency. You can override it on a 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 `overrideScope`. ```nix overrides = self: super: rec { haskell-mode = self.melpaPackages.haskell-mode; ... }; -((emacsPackagesFor emacs).overrideScope' overrides).withPackages +((emacsPackagesFor emacs).overrideScope overrides).withPackages (p: with p; [ # here both these package will use haskell-mode of our own choice ghc-mod |