"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > Hello all, > > I recently wrote a little blog post titled "Guix for development" [0] > and in it I mentioned using a tool called direnv and emacs-direnv as a > way to integrate 'guix shell' with Emacs. This integration has vastly > improved my Emacs experience. I can open a shell buffer and the > environment variables are automatically configured the way I want. I > can run M-x compile and simply enter 'make' as the command instead of > 'guix shell -D -f guix.scm -- make'. > > It's very cool that it works, and I should have done this years ago, > but direnv is an unnecessary middleman for me because I don't use it > for any other purpose. It would be *even cooler* if Emacs could call > 'guix shell --search-paths' directly, parse the result, and update the > buffer environment. Furthemore, it could integrate with project.el > (thus requiring Emacs 28) so that per-project search paths "just > work." The emacs-guix-shell [1] project attempts to do this. > > I'm not an experienced elisp programmer so I'm sure there's stuff to > fix, and there are no customizable variables yet, but the essentials > seem to work OK for me. If you'd like to try it out, eval > guix-shell.el and then M-x guix-shell-global-mode to enable it > everywhere, or M-x guix-shell-mode to enable it just for the current > buffer. > > Whether through direnv or guix-shell.el, integrating Emacs with 'guix > shell' has been a game changer for my development workflow and I > highly recommend it!
I haven't used direnv, but how does it compare to buffer-env? I worked on the Guix integration a few months ago and it has been working really well for me. > That's all for now, > > - Dave > > [0] https://dthompson.us/guix-for-development.html > [1] https://git.dthompson.us/emacs-guix-shell.git/
