From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: Emacs load path Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:21:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87io3frjcd.fsf@gnu.org> <87ziwpjpd9.fsf@gnu.org> <87oad51cxj.fsf@gmail.com> <87wprsgjc7.fsf@gmail.com> <874mes1i00.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGRYi-0006Y6-68 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:21:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGRYg-0007ay-Vm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:21:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874mes1i00.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: Guix-devel On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Alex Kost wrote: > Federico Beffa (2016-01-04 13:18 +0300) wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Alex Kost wrote: >>> Federico Beffa (2016-01-01 19:53 +0300) wrote: > [...] >>>> there's no 'guix-config.el', but only 'guix-config.el.in'. It would be >>>> great if you could provide a working patch. >>> >>> Hm, OK, so your "proof of concept patch" will have the same problem. >>> Could you please answer >>> , as >>> I still don't understand how your suggestion can help Emacs to find >>> packages in "guix.d" dirs of user profile. >> >> That's the easy part. Once we know how to load a minimal version of >> your code, we add it to 'site-start.el'. Emacs automatically loads it. > > Ah, now I see what you mean, thanks! And emacs can be started with > "--no-site-file" so my concerns about avoiding this are fulfilled. For > simplicity, we can even add "site-start.el" to the guix repo I think. Fine with me. I don't have preferences on this. >>> Returning to 'guix-config' problem, we can make a "soft" dependency on >>> 'guix-profiles' (see the attached patch), so the only file needed for >>> finding emacs packages in "guix.d" will be "guix-emacs.el". And the >>> code that should be loaded by Emacs to find guix emacs packages will be: >>> >>> (when (require 'guix-emacs nil t) >>> (add-to-list 'load-path (guix-emacs-directory)) >>> (guix-emacs-load-autoloads)) >> >> I've done this, but it doesn't load as 'guix-config' is missing. I >> guess it needs your patch which I didn't try. > > Yes, it meant to be used with the patch. > > So IIUC we need the following patches to make our Emacs find packages in > a user profile: > > - patch for stripping "guix-emacs.el" from extra dependencies (attached > to the previous message); > > - patch for adding "site-start.el" (attached to this message); > > - modified version of your patch to copy "site-start.el" and > "guix-emacs.el" to the proper places. > If you want, feel free to modify and push my patch as needed. At the moment your patches do not apply on my checkout (I'm behind master by a few weeks). Otherwise, I will update and try to close this during one of the next week-ends. Thanks for the cooperation, Fede