if: Error in evaluating guile expression: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure string-index-right: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting string): #("go" 0 2 (ws-butler-chg chg))
Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
scheme@(emacs-guix) [1]>
I'm not sure what's happening but at a guess, ws-butler is active in the selectrum minibuffer and propertizes the string candidate we send to Guile.
This is a workaround that perhaps should be upstreamed to ws-butler:
Steps
ws-butler-global-mode
andselectrum-mode
.guix-package-by-name
and select any package.Here, I select the "go" package. Result:
I'm not sure what's happening but at a guess, ws-butler is active in the selectrum minibuffer and propertizes the string candidate we send to Guile.
This is a workaround that perhaps should be upstreamed to ws-butler:
If I'm right that it's text properties, perhaps guix.el could de-propertize any strings before sending them to external programs.