[Nix-dev] How to develop with chicken and emacs

[Moritz Ulrich]

Man, I forgot *again* to use reply-all. Damn you Emacs! I'll forward the
mail in a moment.

Eike <eike at eknet.org> writes:

> Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx at gmx.de> writes:
>
>>>> The way I do this is to fire up a Makefile from Emacs.  The Makefile
>>>> uses nix-shell to start the actual builder:
>>>>
>>>>     nix-shell --pure --command "./Setup build"
>>>>
>>>> This is an indirection, but it makes sure that the environment the
>>>> builder sees is (fairly close to) the environment the build script
>>>> would see when you use nix-build.  And indeed, you can actually use
>>>> nix-build as well, although you probably don't want to, because it
>>>> rebuilds the whole thing all the time.
>>>
>>> That's a good tip! I will start with this. But it still wouldn't allow
>>> me to use the interactive features of emacs, if I understand
>>> correctly?  It would be great to evaluate expressions inside emacs
>>> without building the whole app.
>>
>> Well, you can invoke nix-shell instead of the regular shell from within
>> Emacs.  Getting an inferior mode or any other tighter integration to
>> work, if there is one, could be more difficult.  One thing you can do is
>> to make Emacs part of a project-specific development environment using
>> myEnvFun.  The wiki should help you with this.  Alternatively many
>> integration modes allow you to specify the command used for invoking the
>> helper programs.
>
> You're right, an email from Moritz Ulrich taught me about the same thing
> (setting 'scheme-program-name'). That is quite obvious, sometimes it
> seems I can't think to the next step.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Regards,
> Eike
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