Can I use this in normal virtualenvs?

[safijari]

Is this possible in a straight forward-ish way? I'm willing to hack around to make it work but just wanna figure out if there's a clear path for it.

[jlstevens]

NEI is still rough around the edges when it comes to packaging (especially on the emacs side) and I haven't tried virtual environments yet. It should work though (possibly with some hackery as you suggest) as there are multiple emacs packages that claim to support Python virtual envs (e.g the ones I see here).

As far as NEI is concerned, what matters is that the Python interpreter you see if you run M-! which python (or shell-command -> 'which python') has NEI available as a Python package (e.g pip installed from here).

I do need to update that package on PyPI though note that NEI is still alpha quality. That said, I am happy to find that there is some early interest in it! A small number of early adopters is probably a good thing as they don't mind the project being in a state of flux for a while longer as things stabilize.

[safijari]

Oh I see. So I think I can just pip install it from source in my global python environment. Will let you know how that goes.