Re: exploring the code

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-19 15:31 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Catonano <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I opened the file guix/scripts/build.scm in Emacs
>>>
>>> For Geiser to be able to jump to the definition of a symbol at point
>>> or to open a documentation buffer, I need the Guile REPL to "load" the
>>> file 
>>>
>>> C-x C-b does the trick, but I see this error in the REPL, then
>>>
>>> http://paste.lisp.org/display/320775
>>
>> I use C-c C-k (geiser-compile-current-buffer), which works well for me.
>
> I never liked this command.  I found it too slow, and I didn't
> understand why it does so much, I always prefered
> ",use(<current-module>)".  That's why I added "C-c . u" key to
> guix-devel-mode.  It does exactly that: uses the current module.

Good point, I should train my muscle memory to use this one.

Maybe Geiser should provide it in the first place?  (Basically a variant
of C-c C-a that doesn’t jump to the REPL.)

Ludo’.