Re: geiser and guix repl

[Luis Felipe]

Hi,

On Monday, December 12th, 2022 at 10:28, Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 
<acpadoanjr@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Mekeor Melire mekeor@posteo.de writes:
> 

> > By the way, personally, starting "guix repl --listen=tcp:37146"
> > from terminal and then running M-x geiser-connect makes Emacs
> > freeze for me. Do you experience the same?
> 

> Yes, that was exactly my issue.
> 

> The .guile file that you mentioned, the one provided automatically by
> Guix system (I was not aware of it), was responsible for the problem at
> the end. This script provide colors and other utilities when using guile
> from a terminal. If you connect to the guile session using geiser, you
> have a session in emacs with a colored prompt as well (it is necessary
> to use C-g to escape the hang). The colors in prompt are not properly parsed
> by geiser, I think so.
> 

> I deleted my .guix file and tried again. Everything was fine.
> 

> Now that I learned that .guix file was automatically created (and it was not
> something I eventually created myself), I think this issue is something
> that should be documented/clarified somewhere or improved.

There's this bug report which seems to be related:

Connecting Geiser to Guile listening to a socket: No prompt found! (.guile to 
blame)
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/35727.

I still can reproduce it on Guix System f0ee77a.

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