Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix 'geiser-guile-load-path' example.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> OK.  Actually I thought that you use 'with-eval-after-load' or
> 'eval-after-load' or 'use-package', and you just didn't mention it in
> the manual because it's a common Emacs thing.  But it looks like you use
> a straightforward (add-to-list ...), which can work only if
> "geiser-guile.el" is already loaded.  Out of curiosity, do you somehow
> load the whole geiser in your emacs config?  If so, why?
>
> I mean not just (require 'geiser), as it does not load
> "geiser-guile.el", but maybe (require 'geiser-mode) or something like
> it.

I have:

  (require 'geiser-install)
  (require 'geiser)

> (I personally don't touch 'geiser-guile-load-path' at all, I just set
> GUILE_LOAD_PATH in my ".bash_profile" instead)

I touch ‘geiser-guile-load-path’ because I want it to point to a bunch
of source trees.

Conversely, I don’t want GUILE_LOAD_PATH to point to source trees, so it
only points to installation directories.

Ludo’.