Hello Ryan,

unfortunately guix-emacs never worked for me too, in the last couple of
years

Ryan Prior via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:

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> To start Emacs, I ran:
>
>> guix shell -CNPE TERM --no-cwd emacs guix emacs-guix coreutils -- emacs -nw

I'm running Guix on Debian, using a dedicated profile for Emacs with
many packages installed, emacs-guix included; I'm not using
Spacemacs... but I cannot exclude some status in my ~/emacs.d is
interfering

This is my version:

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GNU Guix 1.3.0.6907-92fdd-dirty
Emacs-Guix 0.5.2

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GNU Guix... "dirty" version?  I have to check, but it seems unrelated.

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> Inside this Emacs, I again ran guix-packages-by-name​ and got a nearly identical error:
>
>> guix-geiser-eval: Error in evaluating guile expression: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> Unbound variable: package-names*

Running the same command "guix-packages-by-name", I also get the
(almost) same error (from *Messages* buffer):

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Starting Guix REPL ... [5 times]
guix-geiser-eval: Error in evaluating guile expression: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
error: package-names*: unbound variable

Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
scheme@(emacs-guix) [1]> 

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> For completeness, I also tried a few other commands, like
> guix-installed-packages​

with "guix-installed-packages" I get this error:

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guix-geiser-eval: Error in evaluating guile expression: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
error: package/output-sexps: unbound variable

Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
scheme@(emacs-guix) [2]> 

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Thanks! Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures