1 Introduction

Emacs-Guix (also known as “guix.el”) provides various interfaces and tools related to the GNU Guix package manager.

Call M-x guix if you prefer to dive in right away (see Popup Interface).

In short, Emacs-Guix provides the following features:

• Interfaces for:
  • - profiles (see Profiles)
  • - profile generations (see Generations)
  • - packages (see Packages)
  • - package locations (see Package Locations)
  • - package licenses (see Package Licenses)
  • - operating-system declaration (see System From File)
  • - services (see Services)
  • - service locations (see Service Locations)
  • - store items (see Store Items)
• Magit-like popup interface for all Emacs-Guix M-x commands and Guix shell commands (see Popup Interface).
• Modes to view logs of package builds (see Build Log Mode).
• Minor mode to “prettify” store file names (see Prettify Mode).
• Shell completions for all guix commands and options (see Completions).
• Minor mode with additional functionality for scheme-mode to work with Guix Scheme files (see Development).