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@@ -9,4 +9,33 @@ your initialisation files and then ~M-x run-guile~ to start a REPL. Scheme files with a Guile module declaration should be automatically recognised as Guile-flavoured Geiser buffers. -The easiest way of installing this package is using MELPA. +The easiest way of installing this package is using NonGNU Elpa or +MELPA. If you're in Emacs 28 or higher, the former is already enabled +and all you need is the familiar + +#+begin_src elisp + M-x install-package RET geiser-guile RET +#+end_src + +That will also install geiser, and its fine info manual. Please refer +to it (or its [[https://geiser.nongnu.org][online version]]) for a general description of how geiser +schemes work. We provide below some additional details specific to +geiser-guile. + +*** Start up + + When launching the Guile REPL, geiser will invoke the binary + configured in ~geiser-guile-binary~ (simply "guile" by default) + which in turn will load ~geiser-guile-init-file~, if any. + + Note, however, that specifying ~geiser-guile-init-file~ is /not/ + equivalent to changing Guile's initialization file (=~/.guile=), + because the former is loaded using the =-l= flag, together with =-q= + to disable loading the second. But there are subtle differences + in the way Guile loads the initialization file versus how it loads + a file specified via the =-l= flag. If what you want is just + loading =~/.guile=, leave ~geiser-guile-init-file~ alone and set + ~geiser-guile-load-init-file-p~ to ~t~ instead. + + One can also provide a global list of paths to add to Guile's + =%load-path= via ~geiser-guile-load-path~. |