Re: Geiser vs. guile-mode?

[Matt Wette]

On 2/8/20 10:14 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Matt Wette <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2/7/20 9:50 AM, sirgazil wrote:
> > >    ---- On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:30:43 -0500 Matt Wette <address@hidden> wrote 
> > > ----
> > >    > Thanks for doing this.   I'd like to have #! ... !# handled robustly as
> > >    > comment.
> > >    > It's not working for me and I believe I saw a comment in the code that
> > >    > it was
> > >    > intentionally left out (for some reason I don't remember).
> > >
> > > I don't remember those block comments working for me either, so I use #| ... |# 
> > > instead for top-level and nested block comments.
> > And for scripts I use the following which seems like a kludge to me.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #|
> > xxx
> > xxx
> > xxx
> > exec guile $0 "$@
> > |#
> > !#
> Why is this necessary?  Why not use guile in the shebang?
Finding the right installed guile, setting environment variables
(like GUILE_LOAD_PATH), etc.  And it's not always about avoiding
something because it's not necessary, sometime easier to use sh.