Hi Gottfried, If you don't feel ready for emacs, I would suggest you try Gedit. It's a graphical text editor with basic functionalities like syntax highlighting. It won't do as much as emacs or vim, but it should be very easy to use :)
Le Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:14:32 +0000, Gottfried <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi, thanks for Your email. > I am not sitting the whole day in front of a computer, I am working > in a technical job to help people. > > So I didn´t have time to learn any computer language, emacs etc. > because I didn´t need it for my life yet. > > Which editor You would propose , I should use, to show which brackets > belong to each other, as you described in your email? > > I guess emacs is too difficult for me to learn, because it would make > sense only, if I used it regularly. > So it would be good a more simple editor. > > gottfried > > > > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:34:05 +0000 () > From: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: scanner > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Dear Gottfried <[email protected]>, I use an editor which allows me > to check whether a bit of text is a well formed sexp, that is, a well > formed Lisp expression. I do not have Guile on the machine I am > writing this on, but I am writing using Emacs. > > Here is a syntactically, well, at the level of sexps, well formed > version of your Guix expression: > > (services > (append > (list (service mate-desktop-service-type) > (service enlightenment-desktop-service-type) > (service cups-service-type > (cups-configuration > (web-interface? #t) > (extensions (list cups-filters > hplip)))) > (service openssh-service-type) > (service tor-service-type) > (set-xorg-configuration > (xorg-configuration > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))) > (modify-services %desktop-services > (sane-service-type _ => sane-backends)))) > > I got this by typing the following into an emacs buffer: > > (services > (append > (list (service mate-desktop-service-type) > (service enlightenment-desktop-service-type) > (service cups-service-type > (cups-configuration > (web-interface? #t) > (extensions (list cups-filters > hplip)))) > (service openssh-service-type) > (service tor-service-type) > (set-xorg-configuration > (xorg-configuration > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))) > (modify-services %desktop-services > (sane-service-type _ => sane-backends)) > > which is, I think, the thing you sent to the help-guix list. > > I then added a single parenthesis onto your expression and Emacs > showed me that the new right parenthesis matched the left parenthesis > on the second line of your expression. That is, the left parenthesis > in > > (append > > I then added one more right parenthesis, which Emacs showed me matched > the first left parenthesis of your whole expression. That is, the > left parenthesis in > > (services > > Assuming Emacs is correct in matching parentheses, the result, as > shown at top, is a Lisply correct sexp. But it may, or may not, be a > Guixly syntactically correct expression, because the Guix system may > have more constraints on what it accepts as a command, beyond the > constraint of being a proper sexp. > > I remain, as ever, your fellow student of history and probability, > Jay Sulzberger > > > PS. I got the Lisp-traditional (well, a Lisp traditional) indentation > of the (text representation of) the first expression by asking Emacs > to perform: > > indent-sexp > > on an un-indented version. > > PPS. Reading more carefully your post to help-guix, I now understand > that you already completely grasp the main meat of my note. But as a > member in mostly good standing of the Emacs Tendency of the Front for > Free Software, I send this note. >
