Hello, does anyone use mu4e (emacs interface for 'mu')? If you do, may I ask how? By adding "~/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/mu4e" to 'load-path' manually and requiring mu4e?
Our Emacs doesn't look in sub-directories of "share/emacs/site-lisp" (only in "guix.d" subdir), so mu4e is not found automatically... I've just thought that it would probably be better to look at site-lisp subdirs and not to use a special "guix.d" directory, but it's for a separate thread. Returning to mu4e, I see that (require 'mu4e) is recommended¹, but IMO requiring features in your ".emacs" is a bad practice. I recommend to avoid it if possible, because requiring big packages can significantly reduce start-up time of your Emacs. Instead you can wrap your settings with 'with-eval-after-load' and use 'autoload' function if you need to "pick" some command from a package. Alternatively there is 'use-package' package². After this patchset, "M-x mu4e" will be available right away (do not require mu4e, as it will not be needed). [PATCH 1/4] gnu: mu: Use 'modify-phases'. [PATCH 2/4] gnu: mu: Install emacs files in a proper place. [PATCH 3/4] gnu: mu: Install emacs autoloads. [PATCH 4/4] gnu: mu: Update to 0.9.16. ¹ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Minimal-configuration.html#Minimal-configuration ² https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
