> riak You're talking about the nosql database, right? Excerpts from Malcolm Matalka's message of Wed Jun 26 21:26:40 +0200 2013: > It also is a supported file type in my Emacs
nix has an emacs mode nix-mode.le, did you know that? For nix you can get "syntax checking" by running nix-instantiate --eval-only FILE (vim-addon-nix has done this for ages) So do you think that Emacs mode should be improved? > this feature. I think putting config files in Nix expressions is > suboptimal. You can write config.nix and then import that: config.nix: { hostname ="abc"; } configuration.nix: let my_config = import config.nix; in { networking.hostname = my_config.hostname; } etc. Can you paste a couple of lines of a nicer configuration you want to use and comment them why you think a different style is much different than nix maintainers should care about it? You can also use "substitute in place" like configurations:\ == the file allowed_users: @USERS@ == then make nix substitute @USERS@ to generate the final config. grep nixos for @ and you should find some examples (bash scripts). That would be sufficient if you want to create a config file for a database only (eventually). Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev