would this be a possible alternative to lua for configuration?

[erikLundstedt]

https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/include-fnl

fennel is a lisp dialect that "compiles*" to lua

*compiles in the same way as less-css,sass and scss "compiles" to css

[sayanarijit]

Looks interesting. Let's look into how we can leverage this without directly embedding into xplr. (E.g. browser knows only css). There's also fennel-nvim/aniseed as an inspiration.

[sayanarijit]

Found a good introduction video: https://youtu.be/VC1DhAoRSpg

[sayanarijit]

As per the video, it should be pretty easy to write xplr config in fennel, without built-in support. All it takes is the fennel compiler and a Makefile in the config/plugin directory.

[dtomvan]

Staying in the sass<->css example, sass has some advantages over css. What kind of advantage do you get out of using fennel over lua? Or is it just that people like writing lispy code?

[sayanarijit]

I think it has been sorted.

To add fennel support, use the following steps:

• Get the fennel.lua library. You can get this from a release tarball or by running make in a source checkout.
• Add fennel.lua to ~/.config/xplr/plugins/fennel.lua.
• Add the following lines to ~/.config/xplr/init.lua.

local home = os.getenv("HOME")

-- Lua search path
package.path = home
  .. "/.config/xplr/plugins/?/init.lua;"
  .. home
  .. "/.config/xplr/plugins/?.lua;"
  .. package.path

local fennel = require("fennel")

-- Fennel search path
fennel.path = fennel.path
  .. ";"
  .. home
  .. "/.config/xplr/plugins/?/init.fnl;"
  .. home
  .. "/.config/xplr/plugins/?.fnl;"

table.insert(package.loaders or package.searchers, fennel.searcher)