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author | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2020-01-31T15·27+0000 |
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committer | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2020-01-31T15·27+0000 |
commit | 837cfe07c76df5e464e3cfc7e9a1f0e64a91c4b5 (patch) | |
tree | 09e023d8f7eac7fcf2e3cf39c537f08052385353 /emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el | |
parent | a65b895c8ed7959cd43a2555f6a0f2f99b40741e (diff) |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el')
-rw-r--r-- | emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el index 2e78cf213733..d27815c9e3e4 100644 --- a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el +++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/dotfiles.el @@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ (defconst dotfiles/install-kbds? t "When t, install the keybindings.") +(defconst dotfiles/directory (getenv "BRIEFCASE") + "The root directory of my configuration files.") + (defconst dotfiles/whitelist - '(("compton" . "~/.config/compton.conf") - ("dotfiles" . "~/dotfiles/") + `(("compton" . "~/.config/compton.conf") + ("dotfiles" . ,dotfiles/directory) ("functions" . "~/functions.zsh") ("aliases" . "~/aliases.zsh") ("variables" . "~/variables.zsh") @@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ (defun dotfiles/find-emacs-file (name) "Call `find-file' on NAME located in dotfiles's emacs.d directory." (find-file - (f-join "~/dotfiles/configs/shared/.emacs.d" name))) + (f-join dotfiles/directory "emacs/.emacs.d" name))) (provide 'dotfiles) ;;; dotfiles.el ends here |