Re: questionable advice about Geiser load path setting

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

Hi,

Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

> The docs contain this recommended Emacs setting:
>
> @lisp
> ;; @r{Assuming the Guix checkout is in ~/src/guix.}
> (with-eval-after-load 'geiser-guile
>   (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/src/guix"))
> @end lisp
>
> I haven't been using it for a while because I remember it causing
> trouble whenever I was working on other Guile projects.  I have been
> running Emacs inside ./pre-inst-env instead, which seems to work just as
> well, if not better.
>
> I'd like to make an amendment to the relevant docs, but would welcome
> some info on why it was originally written this way, maybe there are use
> cases I'm missing.

Perhaps we should simply mention that when allowing the .dir-locals.el
file at the root of the Guix repo to configure your Emacs, it'll take
care of adding its directory to the load path of Geiser?

This is very handy when working with multiple Guix checkouts at the same
time.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim