Re: Geiser manual lookups broken with Guile

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> On 2019-01-17 20:23, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>>
>>> I've been annoyed by this issue ever since I started using Guile and
>>> today I finally found time to get to the root of it:
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/252
>>>
>>> Since there are a lot of Guile+Geiser users in this community, I'm
>>> wondering if you people experience the same issue.
>>
>> If no documentation is shown at all and a Guile REPL is connected to
>> your Emacs buffer, then you need to load some modules in the REPL
>> session first.
>
> A ha! Now it works better.
> I typed in this: 
> ",use(guix)"
> and now it shows me docstrings from guix. 😀
>
> Would it be possible to do this automatically?

I usually use C-c C-a, which is bound to
(geiser-mode-switch-to-repl-and-enter). It starts a Guile REPL if it wasn't
already, and enters the module corresponding to that of the buffer you
are visiting.

HTH!

Maxim