Currently, we will just throw everything into modules/ and require it. As the
Emacs config grows in complexity, we can make the minor improvement to require
everything under glob modules/*.el without explicitly naming each feature.
Further, one could easily imagine a module system with conditionals and flags à
la Doom.
Every Nixy solution I could find or conceive had too many points spread across
these various facets:
- Flimsy (emacsWithPackagesFromUsePackage)
- Inelegant (builtins.exec, manual listings)
- Inflexible (emacsWithPackagesFromUsePackage)
- Otherwise unergonomic (everything }:D)
Straight.el is sufficiently declarative, flexible, and Nix-friendly without
blindly bowing down to the imperialist NixOS user. Now, Convenience and
ergonomics shan't be forsaken for the dogma that is total Nixation.
Working:
- The daemon
- Mutable config — well, kinda. I'm not yet sure how it will interact with
`emacsWithPackagesFromUsePackage`.
- Packages via Nixpkgs
Required a patch[1] to spec-dict. Something about GraalVM initialisation and
Clojure files without packages (i.e. single-level namespaced files). I don't
know!
[1]: 531d629b7f
Working:
- The daemon
- Mutable config — well, kinda. I'm not yet sure how it will interact with
`emacsWithPackagesFromUsePackage`.
- Packages via Nixpkgs
I had to disable initrd's systemd stuff. I just /couldn't/ get a rollback
service working; believe me, not for a lack of effort! I've been working on
this on-and-off for a month or two now.
