From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs integration for 'guix shell'
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 07:58:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZkH_FbyKHARu--UQcQP=npWfxb54_FMDTO1ChiieSBng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yh4x89y.fsf@posteo.net>
Hi Philip,
On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 4:22 AM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> "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.
Oh, I didn't realize buffer-env had Guix integration. My little
project may be completely unnecessary, then. When I looked at it I
noticed that it still used .envrc files and wasn't fully compatible
with direnv so it didn't seem as good compared to something that just
directly invoked 'guix shell'. Will buffer-env automatically invoke
'guix shell' without the presence of a .envrc file? And does it
integrate with project.el? I guess I can answer these myself by
trying it out. If it does both of these things then I can happily
switch over to it.
Thanks for the pointer!
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-01 11:59 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
2022-10-01 11:58 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2022-10-01 14:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-06 14:59 ` [EXT] " Thompson, David
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