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@@ -300,15 +300,10 @@ Geiser allows for interactive and incremental development from within
Emacs: code compilation and evaluation from within buffers, access to
on-line documentation (docstrings), context-sensitive completion,
@kbd{M-.} to jump to an object definition, a REPL to try out your code,
-and more (@pxref{Introduction,,, geiser, Geiser User Manual}). For
-convenient Guix development, make sure to augment Guileā€™s load path so
-that it finds source files from your checkout:
-
-@lisp
-;; @r{Assuming the Guix checkout is in ~/src/guix.}
-(with-eval-after-load 'geiser-guile
- (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/src/guix"))
-@end lisp
+and more (@pxref{Introduction,,, geiser, Geiser User Manual}). If you
+allow Emacs to load the @file{.dir-locals.el} file at the root of the
+project checkout, it will cause Geiser to automatically add the local
+Guix sources to the Guile load path.
To actually edit the code, Emacs already has a neat Scheme mode. But in
addition to that, you must not miss