Re: How do I cope with Geiser in Emacs

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Luther Thompson (2018-12-01 19:34 -0500) wrote:

Hello,

> I don't know where to ask about this, but since the problem seems to
> involve many interconnected Emacs-related packages, I'll see if you
> guys can help.
>
> When I'm editing a Scheme file (not Guix-related) in Emacs and
> company-mode activates, I get this error message: 'Company: backend
> company-capf error "No Geiser REPL for this buffer (try M-x
> run-geiser)" with args (prefix)'. If I appease the error by running M-x
> run-geiser, I get completion lists that don't make much sense. They
> fail to include names that are already in the file, and they do include
> what appear to be many obscure library functions.
>
> I would expect company mode to fall back to a backend that doesn't
> throw an error, but the strange completion lists that I get with Geiser
> suggest that the problem is more complicated than that.
>
> Here's what I've been able to figure out so far:
>
> emacs-geiser is a propagated input of emacs-guix. (I don't directly use
> emacs-geiser.)
>
> company-capf is a backend for company-mode.
>
> While in Scheme mode, company-capf must be indirectly calling some
> function that throws this error.
>
>
> Is there some kind of configuration I can do to fix this? There are so
> many different Elisp files that might be involved, I don't know where
> to start looking for a solution.

Since this error comes from Geiser (from 'geiser-repl--connection'
function), I would ask at <https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues>.
Alternatively, you may send a message at <geiser-users@nongnu.org>

-- 
Alex