From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs integration for 'guix shell'
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:22:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yh4x89y.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfbsGuwY3-zxnkPUDOZ4vR9gWjgt3eb0RD9=+TA2tGNgRQ@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:48:25 -0400")
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently wrote a little blog post titled "Guix for development" [0]
> and in it I mentioned using a tool called direnv and emacs-direnv as a
> way to integrate 'guix shell' with Emacs. This integration has vastly
> improved my Emacs experience. I can open a shell buffer and the
> environment variables are automatically configured the way I want. I
> can run M-x compile and simply enter 'make' as the command instead of
> 'guix shell -D -f guix.scm -- make'.
>
> It's very cool that it works, and I should have done this years ago,
> but direnv is an unnecessary middleman for me because I don't use it
> for any other purpose. It would be *even cooler* if Emacs could call
> 'guix shell --search-paths' directly, parse the result, and update the
> buffer environment. Furthemore, it could integrate with project.el
> (thus requiring Emacs 28) so that per-project search paths "just
> work." The emacs-guix-shell [1] project attempts to do this.
>
> I'm not an experienced elisp programmer so I'm sure there's stuff to
> fix, and there are no customizable variables yet, but the essentials
> seem to work OK for me. If you'd like to try it out, eval
> guix-shell.el and then M-x guix-shell-global-mode to enable it
> everywhere, or M-x guix-shell-mode to enable it just for the current
> buffer.
>
> Whether through direnv or guix-shell.el, integrating Emacs with 'guix
> shell' has been a game changer for my development workflow and I
> highly recommend it!
I haven't used direnv, but how does it compare to buffer-env? I worked
on the Guix integration a few months ago and it has been working really
well for me.
> That's all for now,
>
> - Dave
>
> [0] https://dthompson.us/guix-for-development.html
> [1] https://git.dthompson.us/emacs-guix-shell.git/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-01 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-26 17:48 Emacs integration for 'guix shell' Thompson, David
2022-09-26 18:30 ` Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-09-27 2:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-27 11:13 ` Thompson, David
2022-09-28 14:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-27 9:15 ` zimoun
2022-09-27 12:06 ` Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-09-27 14:39 ` zimoun
2022-09-26 18:58 ` pinoaffe
2022-09-28 7:36 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-09-28 12:42 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-10-01 4:47 ` James Thomas
2022-10-01 8:22 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-10-01 11:58 ` Thompson, David
2022-10-01 14:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-06 14:59 ` [EXT] " Thompson, David
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