Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-23 08:57 +0100) wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Since nothing runs before site-start.el, I don't see how I could
>>> override this definition. My only choice is to use the -Q option on the
>>> Emacs command line to bypass site-start.el altogether. But then I don't
>>> get the packages from my new profile either.
>>
>> It's not the only choice.  You can also use "--no-site-file".  It is
>> also mentioned at:
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Emacs-Packages
>
> Right, but that's not very different from -Q:

It is completely different: with "-Q", your .emacs file is not loaded at
all, and with "--no-site-file", only the emacs packages from the guix
profile are not autoloaded.  Isn't that what you wanted?

> I get no start-site at all
> and thus none of the Guix-installed packages. What I am looking for is a
> way to get the packages that I put into the profile from which I started
> Emacs.
>
> I suspect that this could only be done via some environment variable,
> analogous $PATH and others. Emacs doesn't consult any such variable, and
> it seems that Guix didn't introduce one either. At least I didn't find
> any.

If you want to autoload emacs packages from a guix environment (or
similarly from any non-standard guix profile), you can do it like this:

(let ((guix-env (getenv "GUIX_ENVIRONMENT")))
  (when (and guix-env
             (require 'guix-emacs nil t))
    (guix-emacs-autoload-packages guix-env)))

> Is this a decision made for a good reason, or just something "to be
> done"?

Sorry, I don't understand your use case (I think I just didn't read your
message carefully enough), but if you think there is something to be
done, please tell.

-- 
Alex