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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs load path
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:42:46 +0300
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Dmitry Bogatov (2015-12-27 19:47 +0300) wrote:

> * Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> [2015-12-27 17:11:20+0300]
>> Dmitry Bogatov (2015-12-27 02:02 +0300) wrote:
>>
>> >   * By default, ~/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d is not in
>> >     load-path. `emacs-no-x` exports no variables. So, if I install
>> >     some emacs library, like `emacs-f`, evaluating (require 'f) in emacs
>> >     fails. It is... unexpected. Is it intended behaviour?
>>
>> Yes, Federico Beffa (the author of emacs-build-system) explained it here:
>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-06/msg00398.html>
>>
>> You either have to add guix.d directory manually or you can configure
>> emacs interface that comes with Guix, which means (require 'guix-init)
>> more or less.  See (info "(guix) Emacs Initial Setup") for details.
>
> Read this email. It explain existance of guix.d subdirectory, but why
> can't we force emacs to execute following pseudo-code at start:
>
> (for dir in "${HOME}.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d"
>   (push dir load-path))

This is more or less what (require 'guix-init) does (among other
things).  And it works out of the box on GuixSD.

--
Alex