While I would like my CI build to closely resemble a non-CI build, supporting
the `all-the-icons-install-fonts` call is a low priority with a medium amount of
work required.
After my CI build for Emacs failed because the .local/share/wallpaper directory
was missing I had two options:
A. include .local/share/wallpaper in default.nix, which is cumbersome
B. drop support for managing system wallpaper from Emacs
I chose option B.
I'm starting to prefer the `inherit (builtins) path` pattern in my Nix
expressions. I know this is idiomatic, so even if I don't like it, I am trying
to learn to like it.
These were hard-coded as $HOME/BRIEFCASE, which won't work in CI, since CI runs
as the user buildkite-agent-socrates, whose $HOME directory doesn't exist.
TL;DR:
- Define runEmacsScript to emacs/default.nix for ci/pipelines/post-receive
- Write script.el to call (load init.el) and catch any errors
- Lint Elisp with gonewest818/elisp-lint
Also nice how Buildkite supports :gnu: emojis!
- Prefer prepending wpcDir, vendorDir to EMACSLOADPATH instead of using the
--directory flag
- Remove --load ${wpcPackageEl} because init.el calls (require 'wpc-package)
- Surround $@ in 2x-quotes
Following the advice of Domen's nix.dev anti-patterns, I'm preferring something
like...
```nix
builtins.path { path = /path/to/some.where; name = "some.where"; }
```
...to
```nix
/path/to/some/where
```
While the former is more verbose, it will fail to build when the path doesn't
exist, which I prefer.
I would prefer to define constants/briefcase in terms of `(getenv "BRIEFCASE")`
and assert that `(f-exists? (getenv "BRIEFCASE"))`, in one location:
constants.el
TL;DR:
- Prefer `(getenv "BRIEFCASE")` to `(f-expand "~/briefcase")`. I should audit my
Emacs for references to ~/briefcase and replace those calls with `getenv`.
- Remove calls setting <nixpkgs> and <depot> and rely exclusively on <briefcase>
- Prefer ~/nixpkgs-channels to ~/nixpkgs.
Notes:
- I need a better way of calling `home-manager switch` that resides within my
briefcase
Having `git secret hide` as a pre-commit hook doesn't make much sense to me. I
will detail why when/if I write a blog post on briefcase's secret mgt setup.
The problem is, if I change secrets.json and then run `git status`, I won't see
any pending changes. This is because secrets.json is gitignore'd. If I run `git
secret hide` everytime I save secrets.json, I can rest assured that my `git
status` will be consistent with any updates to secrets.json.
Anytime something before or during window-manager.el fails to evaluate,
I lose the ability to type, but I *can* still click.
@tazjin recommended that I use the mouse to cycle to the *Warnings*
buffer, which led me to another bug in a series of bugs that I'm
uncovering: ~/briefcase/org didn't exist.
A simple mistake like this should break my WM startup, so I decided to
remove most of my init hook logic.
Problem: dependency loading order
I originally assumed that keybindings.el was the first module to `require
'evil` because init.el shows:
```elisp
(require 'keybindings)
(require 'window-manager)
```
The problem is that keybindings.el calls `require 'window-manager` and
window-manager.el requires evil! I admit, I've created a bit of a birds nest for
myself.
A few thoughts:
- keybindings.el doesn't need to `require 'window-manager`. Fixed!
- window-manager.el shouldn't need to `require 'evil`. TODO...
While debugging some broken Emacs config, I ran Emacs in X, where for some
reason my PATH doesn't have my nix-env dependencies... because of this, when I
call `~/.nix-profile/bin/wpcarros-emacs` to start my Emacs, I saw warnings about
missing packages that I hadn't seen before. Nice!
In favor of keybindings.el!
Now I have:
- kbd.el: There are no keybindings in this file. It's just a library for working
with keybindings in Emacs.
- keybindings.el: (hopefully) all of my keybindings for EXWM, evil, 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
Today @tazjin told me about Emacs's built-in project.el library, which he
recommended that I extend to support monorepo-specific tooling. It worked like a
charm!
Now when I press "<leader>f", it will resolve to either the nearest file named
default.nix or directory name .git.
After growing frustrated with doom-modeline's compatibility with my EXWM setup,
I decided to borrow @tazjin's setup, which I find to be much more appealing.
My current understanding of how computers deal with time:
- Modelling time is easy: use the number of seconds that have elapsed since the
Unix epoch.
- Display time is complicated. Which timezone should we use? Which format
string?
I think that glyphs look nice, but they subtley confuse Emacs's UI. In the case
of a two-character glyph condensing into one character's width, the fill-width
indicator -- correctly -- highlights the 81st character as red, but it looks
like it's erroneously highlighting the 80th.
Also when I want to create an anonymous function I type (), which condenses into
the unit character, and it's difficult to delete either the opening or the
closing parenthesis.
Overall I think glyphs are cute, but they're not worth the trouble.
After binary searching through my git history to restore my keyboard
functionality, I discovered the issue: I deleted the "Terminal" workspace, but I
did not remove the call to `(exwm/switch "Terminal")`, which silently prevented
EXWM from initializing.
I wish errors like this were noisier.
I created a google-stuff.el module months ago, but I have not needed to
use it much. Removing the google-stuff.el module and all of my
dependencies on it.
As I mentioned in the previous commit, I now use vterm.el as my primary
terminal. I wrote most of this Elisp when I first started using Emacs. I
know longer need it.
Before I switched to vterm.el, I used alacritty as my primary terminal.
I could not install alacritty on gLinux, so I switched to terminator.
When I was ricing my machine, I wanted my Emacs theme to change my
terminator theme. I never finished that project, and it is quite dusty
now.
When I run `nix-env -f '<briefcase>' -iA emacs`, Nix builds a derivation of
wpcarros-emacs using the path to the Emacs derivation. This doesn't work well on
glinux and causes strange behavior. For instance, Chrome crashes when it tries
to browse for files. Building with `nix-env -iA emacs.glinux` fixes this and
other problems.
Miscellaneous other changes:
- Remove unnecessary fix-point recursion
- Drop support for unused dottime.el
- Remove unused overrideEmacs
- Remove unused withLocalConfig
- Support emacs.glinux and emacs.nixos alternative derivations
TL;DR:
- Prune unused themes
- Prefer "JetBrainsMono" font for all themes
- Remove TODOs that I've either supported or that I'm uninterested in supporting
I'm working off of my laptop but I'm using my 4k monitor. The expression that
sets `fonts/size` could be more sophisticated and detect this, but for now, I'm
just bumping up the size.
When I first switched to EXWM, I wrote a lot of Elisp. I think I was mostly
excited about having a monorepo and, as I had a backlog of ideas that I wanted
to implement, I ended up writing many halfly baked ideas in Elisp. These are
mostly sketches.
Problem:
prettier-js waits for rjsx-mode. rjsx-mode only runs on .js files. As such,
the hook that installs prettier-js-mode for *all* of my frontend hooks, which
includes more than just js files, does not install until a javascript file is
opened.
Solution:
Do not conditionally load prettier-js.
Bonus:
Remove the .js mode from rjsx.
I think I removed the `(server-start)` call when I was debugging some EXWM
issues. I have stabilized my configuration considerably since then, and I'd like
to use the Emacs server.
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.
Support commonly used programs like fd, exa, bat, etc.
For now, I'm unsure how to manage the programs in my emacs/default.nix with my
home.nix. I'll wait until I have a stronger opinion to handle this.
I'm not sure if this commit breaks everything in my monorepo. I think it
will.
Why am I doing this? Perhaps it's a bad idea. I don't fully understand how
readTree works. My ignorance is costing me hours of time spent debugging. In an
effort to better understand readTree, I'm removing the default values for my Nix
expression parameters, which I believe have preventing errors from surfacing.
- Support command to open a dired buffer with wpcarro's $HOME directory for any
host defined in ssh/hosts.
- Support opening the current buffer with sudo privileges.
Every Tuesday I work from Google's 6PS office instead of BEL. I work from my
laptop, which often requires that I ssh into the desktop work station in BEL. I
have settled on a locally optimal workflow that I'd like to improve. To help
seek higher ground, I'm planning on using ssh.el to configure tramp and define
utility functions to lower my cost of exploring new workflows.
- Defines a function, `ssh/desktop-cd-home` that helps me quickly open a dired
buffer for my work station's home directory.
- Documents some variables that I set weeks ago.
- Requires ssh.el in init.el.
Until now my notmuch is usable but not almost always pleasurably so. For
example, when I reply to messages, notmuch warns that "Insert failed:"; when I
check Gmail, the reply sent... strange. After consulting with a fellow notmuch
user and Emacs disciple, tazjin@, I borrowed some of his notmuch configuration.
- notmuch is no longer warning about replies
- Replies do not include noisy email signatures
- I have an Emacs User-Agent header in my outgoing mail
- All of this and more...
