Re: Problems with guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Jone,
>> 
>> Jone <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > After comment string in ~/.guile "(use-modules (ice-9 readline))"
>> > guile starts, but does not highlight matching brackets as before.
>> 
>> The (ice-9 readline) module is now part of the ‘guile-readline’
>> package.  Thus, to get that functionality, you need to run:
>> 
>>   guix package -i guile-readline
>
> gnu/system/shadow.scm has:
>   (".guile" ,(plain-file "dot-guile"
>               "(cond ((false-if-exception (resolve-interface '(ice-9 
> readline)))
>
> so we might want to fix this systemwide

This ~/.guile template is for new installs, to adequately deal with
missing (ice-9 readline).

People who already had a ~/.guile have to adjust it or install
guile-readline, we can’t do that for them.

Ludo’.