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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-27 15:43:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-27 15:49:20 -0400 |
| commit | 95c74eae269b2b9e4bc514581b5caa1d80b54acc (patch) | |
| tree | f8f36185fa71202a79ed320e2a413433f957ff63 /misc | |
| parent | f46612be96a70a188cd48462ac94089d3e95a36b (diff) | |
Allow dashes in identifiers
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:
dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };
and
buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];
Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
Diffstat (limited to 'misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/emacs/nix-mode.el | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc/emacs/nix-mode.el b/misc/emacs/nix-mode.el index 121a9172b..986edcf6e 100644 --- a/misc/emacs/nix-mode.el +++ b/misc/emacs/nix-mode.el @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The hook `nix-mode-hook' is run when Nix mode is started. ("\\<isNull\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face) ("[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\\+-\\.]*:[a-zA-Z0-9%/\\?:@&=\\+\\$,_\\.!~\\*'-]+" . font-lock-constant-face) - ("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'\.]*\\)[ \t]*=" + ("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'\-\.]*\\)[ \t]*=" (1 font-lock-variable-name-face nil nil)) ("<[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]+\\(/[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]+\\)*>" . font-lock-constant-face) |