Re: emacs-guix

[Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>]

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On 2024-10-23 13:25, Christopher Howard wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> For now, you can send patches to guix-patches@gnu.org with “Emacs-Guix”
>> in the subject and I and other committers would be happy to apply them.
>>
>
> Thank you. I have now cloned the repository. My spare time is very limited in this stage of my life, but I am hoping over the winter that I will be able to work on learning the code and patching a few bugs. (It is winter now in Alaska.) Lately I have been busy trying to finish my EmacsConf talks.
>
> Could somebody explain the best approach to running/testing modified
> emacs-guix source from a Guix system? I see emacs-guix is loaded from
> the site-start.el file in the profile, and then this loads
> guix-emacs-autoload-packages, which is critical for running Emacs on a
> Guix system. So, it is not obvious to me the most sensible approach
> for iterative building and testing.

You can basically re-eval the whole .el file or just a part of it with
M-x eval-buffer/defun/whatever and check the updated behavior.

Be aware that guix-emacs is not emacs-guix.  It's unrelated
guix-specific machinery.  emacs-guix should work completely fine without
it and all usual emacs development approaches will apply for it.

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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin

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