Re: [PATCH 2/2] emacs: Add 'guix-apply-manifest'.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ludovic Courtès (2015-05-29 14:52 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Many thanks to David for a great "--manifest" feature and for the idea
>>>> of this patch (I read the #guix log :-) ).
>>>
>>> Ah ah, we only need to mention our wishes for the Emacs UI, and the next
>>> day a patch comes in.  This is ideal!  :-)
>>
>> Not really :-)  I remember about a wish of integrating "guix.el" with
>> "guix environment" but it's still just a wish.
>
> I've been wishing for that more and more lately, so that I could spawn
> Guile REPLs with Geiser that are using the correct environment.  Chop
> chop! ;)

Oh that’s right!  I often find myself doing

  M-x compile cd /foobar ; guix environment foobar -E 'some long command'

and that’s not as convenient as it could be.

Wishfully,
Ludo’.  :-)