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Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wro=
te:
>>> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
>>>
>>>> If you install guix in the default prefix (/usr/local) you should find=
 a
>>>> file called 'guix.el' in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/.  With that
>>>> you can include the following commands in your .emacs file and you
>>>> should be all set:
>>>>
>>>> 1. (setq load-path (append '("/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/") load=
-path))
>>>> 2. (require 'guix-init nil t)
>>>>
>>>> On some host distros step 1. may not even be needed.
>>>
>>> I don=E2=80=99t see how to make that happen automatically on foreign di=
stros.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> We still have the option of making it more prominent in the
>>> documentation, for example by mentioning specifically Emacs under
>>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.h=
tml>.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> If we make an 'emacs-guix' package and make it an input to emacs it shou=
ld work.
>
> Attached is a proof of concept patch showing one way to do it.
>
> If you don't want to add the full 'guix.el',

Indeed, I think it would be too much.

> then we should definitely add code in a similar way to instruct emacs
> to look in the right places (".../guix.d") for our emacs packages out
> of the box.  As Dmitry rightfully points out, having emacs packages
> which do not work out of the box is just a bug.

Yeah.  Alex, any idea how to add the guix.d subdirectories to the search
path without duplicating all of guix.el in the =E2=80=98emacs=E2=80=99 pack=
age?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.