Practical guide to running guile goblins

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

install guix

sudo apt-get install guix
guix pull

set guix profile

GUIX_PROFILE="/home/elplatt/.config/guix/current"
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

install geiser (https://www.nongnu.org/geiser/Installation.html)

enable emacs ELPA

append to ~/.emacs:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
         '("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/"))
(package-initialize)

in emacs:

	M-x eval-buffer
	M-x package-refresh-contents
	M-x package-install RET geiser-guile RET

install goblins

guix install guile-goblins

run guile in a guix shell with goblins (see https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-goblins/-/blob/main/live-guile.sh for reference)

guix shell guile guile-goblins -- guile --listen=~/goblins.sock

The above will start a guile REPL in the terminal and create a socket that other processes can connect to. It may be convenient to run this in a tmux session if you don't want to have to keep a dedicated terminal tab open.

in emacs

M-x geiser-connect-local
~/goblins.sock

This will start a REPL. Code can be entered into the REPL or evaluated in a scheme buffer with C-e.

If geiser hangs, the REPL can be restarted with:

M-x geiser-reload

To clean up, close the original guile REPL with C-d and delete the socket file:

rm ~/goblins.sock