Re: Creating an Emacs Home Configuration Service

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Sonntag, dem 16.10.2022 um 16:34 -1000 schrieb Zain Jabbar:
> 2. Have Emacs update whenever the =home-environment= is updated.
> Meaning, if I did not add =(service emacs-evil-service-type)= in my
> =home-environment= then obviously =M-x evil-mode= should not work.
> But after adding the service then I want =M-x evil-mode= to work
> without having to restart Emacs. I do not understand the Emacs
> loading system on Guix well enough to know why it does not work.
> Skipping all of the =home-service= stuff, running =guix install
> emacs-evil-mode= then =(guix-emacs-autoload-packages)= does not let
> emacs know that =evil-mode= is installed. I would need to close Emacs
> and start Emacs again for Emacs to know about =evil-mode= being
> installed.
I suggest not doing this; there are good reasons why I disabled it.  If
you still want to, you can instruct your running emacs process to load
$GUIX_PROFILE/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el and perhaps also (guix-
emacs-autoload-packages).

Cheers