bug#39020: Lean won't work with the emacs mode

[Brett Gilio]

Arvid Marx <address@hidden> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Hello Arvid,
>> 
>> [...]
>> When writing the package definition for the Emacs Lead mode, the code
>> could be rewritten to refer to the absolute path of the
>> files/programs
>> it uses from the Lean project, by patching it with `substitute*'
>> uses,
>> for example.
>> 
>> If that is not easy to do, another idea would be to create some kind
>> of
>> overlay directory which would flatly collect all the items needed
>> then
>> refer to that (the items would be symlinked to their real location).
>> See the `union-build' procedure of the (guix build union) module of
>> Guix.
>> 
>> HTH!
>> 
>> Maxim
>
> Hello Maxim,
>
> thanks for your response! The second idea is basically what I had in
> mind, as the Lean mode seems to depend on an actual file tree. Patching
> the emacs mode however looks quite simple, as all one needed to do is
> change the definition of lean-get-executable as defined in 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leanprover/lean-mode/master/lean-util.el
> . I might take a closer look and write a simple patch at some point,
> but up to that point, it appears that just using ~/.guix-profile as a
> root directory works as well, or at least doesn't raise any errors when
> type checking etc.
>
> Again, thanks for feedback!
>
> --
>
> Arvid 
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Closing.

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