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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.
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EmacsLisp
58 lines
2.5 KiB
EmacsLisp
;;; wpc-nix.el --- Nix support -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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;;; Commentary:
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;; Configuration to support working with Nix.
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;; Dependencies
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;; TODO: These may fail at startup. How can I make sure that the .envrc is
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;; consulted when Emacs starts?
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(prelude/assert (f-exists? (getenv "BRIEFCASE")))
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(prelude/assert (f-exists? (getenv "DEPOT")))
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;; Library
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;;; Code:
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(use-package nix-mode
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:mode "\\.nix\\'")
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(defun nix/sly-from-briefcase (attribute)
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"Start a Sly REPL configured with a Lisp matching a derivation
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from my monorepo.
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This function was taken from @tazjin's depot and adapted for my monorepo.
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The derivation invokes nix.buildLisp.sbclWith and is built
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asynchronously. The build output is included in the error
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thrown on build failures."
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(interactive "sAttribute: ")
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(lexical-let* ((outbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*briefcase-out/%s*" attribute)))
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(errbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*briefcase-errors/%s*" attribute)))
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(expression (format "let depot = import <depot> {}; briefcase = import <briefcase> {}; in depot.nix.buildLisp.sbclWith [ briefcase.%s ]" attribute))
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(command (list "nix-build" "-E" expression)))
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(message "Acquiring Lisp for <briefcase>.%s" attribute)
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(make-process :name (format "nix-build/%s" attribute)
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:buffer outbuf
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:stderr errbuf
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:command command
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:sentinel
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(lambda (process event)
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(unwind-protect
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(pcase event
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("finished\n"
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(let* ((outpath (s-trim (with-current-buffer outbuf (buffer-string))))
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(lisp-path (s-concat outpath "/bin/sbcl")))
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(message "Acquired Lisp for <briefcase>.%s at %s" attribute lisp-path)
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(sly lisp-path)))
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(_ (with-current-buffer errbuf
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(error "Failed to build '%s':\n%s" attribute (buffer-string)))))
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(kill-buffer outbuf)
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(kill-buffer errbuf))))))
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(provide 'wpc-nix)
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;;; wpc-nix.el ends here
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