From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Gibbons Subject: bug#38273: bug#38274: emacs doesn't open files Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:13:15 -0700 Message-ID: <52cfff32af03af0c8526072784215234fd2a6eb7.camel@gmail.com> References: <1f689090e172463c62ea6c1029935fd5b29fdbdc.camel@gmail.com> <878sobwoky.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXHNV-0006QL-W0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:14:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXHNU-0003ik-P9 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:14:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXHNT-0003gZ-4U for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:14:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iXHNR-00049T-PT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:14:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <878sobwoky.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Maxim Cournoyer , 38273-done@debbugs.gnu.org On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 06:20 +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hello Jesse, > > Jesse Gibbons writes: > > > On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 08:35 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > > > guix describe : > > > Generation 139 Nov 19 2019 08:11:32 (current) > > > guix 7b40d59 > > > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > > branch: master > > > commit: 7b40d59114e1462d6d8140f325a66b12e91db667 > > > > > > emacs --version : > > > GNU Emacs 26.3 > > > Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > > You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs > > > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > > > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. > > > > > > When I launch emacs from the command line, I get the following > > > message: > > > split-string: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil > > > > > > As a result, when I try `EDITOR=emacs guix edit hello` it doesn't > > > work. > > > I can confirm this is not a problem with guix edit, because when > > > EDITOR=vim > > > it opens the package in vim. > > > > > > (Joke about guix turning to the dark side goes here.) > > > > > > Since I do not know if it is a problem with guix or emacs, I'm > > > starting > > > with > > > guix. It could be related to bug#38261 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess this was fixed for me by restarting my computer. > > > > (joke about "turning it off and back on" working goes here) > > It seems the EMACSLOADPATH was not defined in your environment. Ok. > Do you use Emacs in your main user profile? Yes. > How did this happen? Did you simply 'guix pull' and 'guix upgrade -u .' > said profile? "guix pull && guix upgrade" > > In all cases, simply login out and back in should probably have fixed > the issue (instead of a reboot). As I recall, I turned it off, commuted to a class, and turned it back on. > > Thanks for the report! > > Maxim