Subject: Re: [bug#60753] [PATCH] gnu: home: Add home-emacs-service-type.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:02:30 +0100

Hi,

Andrew Tropin <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> What about accepting sexps (or gexps) instead of strings?  As in:
>>
>>   (init-file '((require 'whatever) (setq something t)))
>
> A quick minor note on this approach: it won't be possible to use
> #'elisp-function inside such configuration because it will be
> interpreted by guile reader, but actually rde lives without this
> functionality completely ok.

Specifically:

  (write '#'x)
  |= (syntax x)

But we can use (guix read-print) and ensure that it prints #'.

> Do we want something like this possible?
>
> (init-file `((require 'whatever)
>              (setq something t)
>              (load ,(local-file "old-init.el")))

It’d be nice.  In that case, we’ll want it to be a gexp though:

  #~((require 'whatever) (load #$(local-file …)))

Thanks,
Ludo’.