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Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development
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Alex Kost |
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Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:40:28 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-15 07:21 +0200) wrote:
> Alex Kost writes:
>
>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-13 22:45 +0200) wrote:
>>
>>> (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile)
>
>> Thank you! I'm going to apply it. I have extracted the guile code and
>> put it to the "scheme side" of Emacs-Guix, also I have rewritten this
>> command a bit. The only thing: I don't like the name (neither
>> "guix-switch-profile" nor "guix-profile-apply"). I think
>> "guix-set-emacs-environment" suits better, as setting the environment is
>> exactly what this command does, WDYT?
>
>> You may look at my version of your patch (not in "master" yet) here:
>>
>>
>> https://notabug.org/alezost/emacs-guix/commit/a4bd696f0b8c564c1e654c426e9059cac1607996
>
> Thank you, I enjoyed reading your rewrite, makes me happy! Moving the
> scheme side makes it cleaner and I learned about -let, nice :-)
"-let" (and other "-foo" procedures and macros) is from "emacs-dash"
package. This library contains many useful things to work with lists:
https://github.com/magnars/dash.el
> I also like the new name better, you see that I struggled/renaed because
> I wasn't happy with it. The initial switch-profile name was simply
> chosen because that's how I use it: to switch between my named profiles.
Ah, I see.
>> Let me know, if you think something should be fixed there.
>
> I think it's OK to go in.
Thanks, it is in master now.
> The thing I'm not really happy with yet is
> the UX of how to switch to temporary `guix environment ...'
> environments. You have to do: echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, <select>, <cut>,
> M-x guix-set-emacs-environment RET <paste> ... but I have no idea how we
> could improve on that. Thoughts?
Sorry, I also don't see a way to simplify this.
--
Alex