Re: Loading Common Lisp Libraries with GNU/Guix in a REPL

[Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>]

Edouard Klein <edou@rdklein.fr> writes:

I also don't know the canonical way, but I do it a different way. I'm wondering what the simpler way to do things is? I know nothing about rlwrap. But here's how I do things:

Depending on the project, I may have a =guix.scm= package defined for it or not. This only changes how I invoke =guix shell=, not the technique.

From emacs, I run slime: with =C-u M-x slime=. It prompts me for which lisp I want to run, and then I type =guix shell -D -- sbcl=. This seems pretty simple.

I think I did have to include this in my bash initialization though. I'm not sure if it will work without it, or if there's a more correct way to do what I'm doing:

#+begin-src bash
if [ -n "${GUIX_ENVIRONMENT}" ]; then
    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="${GUIX_ENVIRONMENT}/etc:${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}"
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${GUIX_ENVIRONMENT}/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}"
    export PATH="${GUIX_ENVIRONMENT}/bin:${PATH}"
    export PATH="${GUIX_ENVIRONMENT}/sbin:${PATH}"
fi
#+end_src

I hope this helps!

--
Katherine