Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-15 07:21 +0200) wrote:

> Alex Kost writes:
>
>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-13 22:45 +0200) wrote:
>>
>>> (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile)
>
>> Thank you!  I'm going to apply it.  I have extracted the guile code and
>> put it to the "scheme side" of Emacs-Guix, also I have rewritten this
>> command a bit.  The only thing: I don't like the name (neither
>> "guix-switch-profile" nor "guix-profile-apply").  I think
>> "guix-set-emacs-environment" suits better, as setting the environment is
>> exactly what this command does, WDYT?
>
>> You may look at my version of your patch (not in "master" yet) here:
>>
>>   https://notabug.org/alezost/emacs-guix/commit/a4bd696f0b8c564c1e654c426e9059cac1607996
>
> Thank you, I enjoyed reading your rewrite, makes me happy!  Moving the
> scheme side makes it cleaner and I learned about -let, nice :-)

"-let" (and other "-foo" procedures and macros) is from "emacs-dash"
package.  This library contains many useful things to work with lists:

  https://github.com/magnars/dash.el

> I also like the new name better, you see that I struggled/renaed because
> I wasn't happy with it.  The initial switch-profile name was simply
> chosen because that's how I use it: to switch between my named profiles.

Ah, I see.

>> Let me know, if you think something should be fixed there.
>
> I think it's OK to go in.

Thanks, it is in master now.

> The thing I'm not really happy with yet is
> the UX of how to switch to temporary `guix environment ...'
> environments.  You have to do: echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, <select>, <cut>,
> M-x guix-set-emacs-environment RET <paste> ... but I have no idea how we
> could improve on that.  Thoughts?

Sorry, I also don't see a way to simplify this.

-- 
Alex