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William Carroll
0c71fc9d1d Drop support for dir-locals.nix, <nixpkgs>, etc.
In the spirit of Marie Kondo, I'm tidying up!

TL;DR:
- Prefer .envrc `use_nix` and delete all dir-locals.nix files
- Remove ~all references to <nixpkgs>, <unstable>, <depot> and prefer
  referencing each with briefcase.third_party.{pkgs,unstable,depot}
- Delete nixBufferFromShell function since I was only using that in
  dir-locals.nix files
2020-08-20 11:26:32 +01:00
William Carroll
d12b8b3dcb Build either emacs.{glinux,nixos} depending on my current device
`M-x nix/rebuild-emacs` will build either emacs.glinux or emacs.nixos depending
on whether I'm using a work device or a personal device.
2020-04-02 14:50:53 +01:00
William Carroll
28af585f3d Include NIX_PATH settings in nix/rebuild-emacs function
I'm currently setting NIX_PATH in ~/briefcase/shell.nix. This means when I call
`nix/rebuild-emacs` from a buffer that is inside the briefcase directory, the
command succeeds because NIX_PATH is properly defined. When I call
`nix/rebuild-emacs` from any other location it fails.

I'm hard-coding the NIX_PATH in this command so that I can call
`nix/rebuild-emacs` from any buffer that is currently active.
2020-03-06 18:45:55 +00:00
William Carroll
96ff26e5ca Support nix/home-manager-switch
As a part of my plan to reduce my dependence on the shell, I defined an Elisp
function to call `home-manager switch` from `M-x`.
2020-03-06 18:45:55 +00:00
William Carroll
dec005ea34 Consume top-level emacs attribute
Refactor `nix/rebuild-emacs` to consume newly defined top-level emacs
attribute.
2020-03-04 19:49:45 +00:00
William Carroll
ffbe5c9757 Support emacs fn for rebuilding wpcarros-emacs
Call `M-x` `nix/rebuild-emacs` to build and link `wpcarros-emacs`.
2020-02-02 18:31:33 +00:00
William Carroll
837cfe07c7 Rename dotfiles -> briefcase
Renaming my mono-repo briefcase.

I first introduced this commit in master, but it introduced a bug where one of
two things would happen:

1. Emacs wouldn't start and would crash X.
2. Emacs would start but my keyboard wouldn't work.

I learned some valuable debugging skills in the process. Here are some of them:

When my keyboard was broken, I wanted to control my computer using my
laptop. Thankfully this is possible by using `x2x`, which forward X events from
the SSH client to the SSH host.

```shell
> # I'm unsure if this is the *exact* command
> ssh -X desktop x2x -west :0.0
```

Git commit-local bisecting. I didn't need to do a `git bisect` because I knew
which commit introduced the bug; it was HEAD, master. But -- as you can see from
the size of this commit -- there are many changes involved. I wanted to binary
search through the changes, so I did the following workflow using `magit`:

- git reset --soft HEAD^
- git stash 1/2 of the files changed
- re-run `nix-env -f ~/briefcase/emacs -i`
- restart X session
- If the problem persists, the bug exists in the non-stashed files. Repeat the
  process until you find the bug.

In my case, the bug was pretty benign. Calling `(exwm/switch "Dotfiles")` at the
bottom of `window-manager.el` was failing because "Dotfiles" is the name of a
non-existent workspace; it should've been `(exwm/switch "Briefcase")`.

There may have been more problems. I changed a few other things along the way,
including exposing the env vars BRIEFCASE to `wpcarros-emacs` inside of
`emacs/default.nix`.

The important part is that this was a valuable learning opportunity, and I'm
glad that I'm walking away from the two days of "lost productivity" feeling
actually productive.
2020-01-31 15:27:48 +00:00
William Carroll
578ed1ba98 Move move .emacs.d out of configs/shared
Moving all of my Emacs-related files into their own directory at the root of
this repository.
2020-01-30 16:00:29 +00:00
Renamed from configs/shared/.emacs.d/wpc/packages/wpc-nix.el (Browse further)