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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/wpc-nix.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/wpc-nix.el')
-rw-r--r-- | emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/wpc-nix.el | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/wpc-nix.el b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/wpc-nix.el index 68d542e01176..7407e02bfd41 100644 --- a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/wpc-nix.el +++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/wpc-nix.el @@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ ;; Dependencies ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; -(prelude/assert (f-exists? "~/universe")) -(prelude/assert (f-exists? "~/depot")) +;; TODO: These may fail at startup. How can I make sure that the .envrc is +;; consulted when Emacs starts? +(prelude/assert (f-exists? (getenv "BRIEFCASE"))) +(prelude/assert (f-exists? (getenv "DEPOT"))) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Library @@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ (use-package nix-mode :mode "\\.nix\\'") -(defun nix/sly-from-universe (attribute) +(defun nix/sly-from-briefcase (attribute) "Start a Sly REPL configured with a Lisp matching a derivation from my monorepo. @@ -29,12 +31,12 @@ This function was taken from @tazjin's depot and adapted for my monorepo. asynchronously. The build output is included in the error thrown on build failures." (interactive "sAttribute: ") - (lexical-let* ((outbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*universe-out/%s*" attribute))) - (errbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*universe-errors/%s*" attribute))) - (expression (format "let depot = import <depot> {}; universe = import <universe> {}; in depot.nix.buildLisp.sbclWith [ universe.%s ]" attribute)) + (lexical-let* ((outbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*briefcase-out/%s*" attribute))) + (errbuf (get-buffer-create (format "*briefcase-errors/%s*" attribute))) + (expression (format "let depot = import <depot> {}; briefcase = import <briefcase> {}; in depot.nix.buildLisp.sbclWith [ briefcase.%s ]" attribute)) (command (list "nix-build" "-E" expression))) - (message "Acquiring Lisp for <depot>.%s" attribute) - (make-process :name (format "depot-nix-build/%s" attribute) + (message "Acquiring Lisp for <briefcase>.%s" attribute) + (make-process :name (format "nix-build/%s" attribute) :buffer outbuf :stderr errbuf :command command @@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ This function was taken from @tazjin's depot and adapted for my monorepo. ("finished\n" (let* ((outpath (s-trim (with-current-buffer outbuf (buffer-string)))) (lisp-path (s-concat outpath "/bin/sbcl"))) - (message "Acquired Lisp for <depot>.%s at %s" attribute lisp-path) + (message "Acquired Lisp for <briefcase>.%s at %s" attribute lisp-path) (sly lisp-path))) (_ (with-current-buffer errbuf (error "Failed to build '%s':\n%s" attribute (buffer-string))))) |