Using geiser-guile-load-path as currently recommended results in source
that was already compiled by the guix build being recompiled :-(
This patch avoids that. It also moves the configuration to
'~/.bash_profile' so it applies when guile is used directly.
>From 4585499f99336dc3e626c3105f0539ef3b5ce33c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:21:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improve guile load path recommendation.
* doc/contributing.texi (The Perfect Setup): Advise setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH and
GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH in .bash_profile rather than emacs init.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index bbc93424b..d23f55a6b 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -171,14 +171,17 @@ Emacs: code compilation and evaluation from within buffers, access to
on-line documentation (docstrings), context-sensitive completion,
@kbd{M-.} to jump to an object definition, a REPL to try out your code,
and more (@pxref{Introduction,,, geiser, Geiser User Manual}). For
-convenient Guix development, make sure to augment Guile’s load path so
-that it finds source files from your checkout:
-
-@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
+convenient Guix development, make sure to augment Guile’s load paths so
+that it finds source and compiled files from your checkout. Assuming the
+Guix checkout is in @code{~/src/guix}, add the following lines to your
+‘~/.bash_profile’ (*note (bash)Bash Startup Files::):
+
+@verbatim
+export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=\
+"$HOME/src/guix${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH}"
+export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=\
+"$HOME/src/guix${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH}"
+@end verbatim
To actually edit the code, Emacs already has a neat Scheme mode. But in
addition to that, you must not miss
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