Re: Emacs integration for 'guix shell'

[James Thomas]

Thompson, David wrote:

> 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.

Great work!

You might also want to check out a package called buffer-env [1] for
this, which is more generally applicable. [2] is a blog post describing
one way to use it in Guix.

[1] https://github.com/astoff/buffer-env/
[2] https://amodernist.com/texts/emacs-guix.html

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