Guix-rebound 2

• Inbox
  • Refactor: single file per feature
• Principles
  • User configuration
• Conventions
  • Repo structure
    • hosts/
    • users/
  • Impermanence and persistence
• Tasks
  • Emacs
    • One-off environment changes without direnv
    • minibuffer
      • jk to escape
      • history navigation in insert mode w/ C-j / C-k
      • RET to send whilst in normal mode
    • dired
      • use / to live narrow
    • set up JuliaMono for use with ipa: links
    • text-mode
      • grammar
      • spellcheck and dictionaries
      • org-mode
        • init.org for beorg
        • IPA links
        • capture templates
          • journal entry
          • todo
        • fancy headline stars
        • better colour for inline code
      • variable pitch
    • form and element text objects à la vim-sexp
    • customise the eshell prompt
    • jump to prev/next hole in haskell
    • make a bind for inserting hrules
    • KILL set up emms
    • set up JuliaMono for use with IPA glyphs
    • KILL literate config
    • evil-cp fixes
      • ( / )
      • element text objects
    • automatically close compilation buffer
    • fix [e / ]e
    • unmap TAB in normal mode
    • eshell trail à la M-x calc
  • Dotfiles
    • Emacs
    • Bash
      • shopt -s histverify
    • (neo)vim
    • readline
  • disko
  • IDEA refactor disko configs to be more reusable
  • IDEA replace uses of gpg with age
  • password store 4 firefox
  • password store w/ age
  • Automatically sync password store
  • secrets
  • git config
  • niri
  • qtile
  • Convenient way to wrap programs
  • tf2.nix
  • mpd
    • mpdscribble
  • syncthing
  • HOLD impermanence
  • sydnix.defaults module
  • Split up flake.nix into a file per output
  • default package sets
  • Set envvars
    • $EDITOR
  • System maintenance scripts
    • nix-clean
    • choose-editor
    • forget-host HOST
• References

Current name of guix-rebound ought to be changed. This is a rewrite from scratch. }:3

A second try at NixOS, now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing. The effort is largely inspired by my darling Faye's glorious wishsys.

Inbox

Refactor: single file per feature

Modules, but lightweight.

Principles

User configuration

In order of descending preference, user programs should be configured by…

1. Wrappers, with config files optionally living somewhere under /persist/dots.
2. home-manager's modules.
3. home.file and similar.
4. Mutable symlinks using home.file and mkOutOfStoreSymlink.

Conventions

Repo structure

hosts/

Each directory hosts/«HOST» is expected to configure a single specific device, where «HOST» is the device's exact hostname. Said directory «HOST» should have at least the following structure:

hosts
└── «HOST»
    ├── configuration.nix
    └── system.nix

Where configuration.nix is the main entry point imported by the top-level flake, and system.nix evaluates to a string corresponding to the system option to be used.

users/

Similarly to the hosts directory, each subdirectory users/«USER» is assumed to have some structure, and that «USER» is the precise username desired.

users
└── «USER»
    └── default.nix

Where default.nix returns an attrset of form

{
  # The NixOS option `users.users.«USER»` will be set to result of
  # `systemConfiguration`.
  systemConfiguration = { config, pkgs, lib, ... }: {
    # isNormalUser = true;
    # extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
    # ...
  };

  # Home-manager configuration
  homeConfiguration = { config, pkgs, lib, ... }: {
    # home.packages = [ pkgs.hello ];
    # ...
  };
}

Impermanence and persistence

• Persistent files to be linked into / go under /persist/root

Tasks

Emacs

[A] One-off environment changes without direnv

I would like the ability to ergonomically e.g. add HLS to my current environment without setting up an entire project. Perhaps something like "create new workspace under a nix-shell invocation" could work?

minibuffer

DONE jk to escape

CLOSED: [2024-11-20 Wed 12:11]

DONE history navigation in insert mode w/ C-j / C-k

CLOSED: [2024-11-20 Wed 12:11]

RET to send whilst in normal mode

dired

DONE use / to live narrow

CLOSED: [2024-11-14 Thu 04:46]

set up JuliaMono for use with ipa: links

text-mode

grammar

spellcheck and dictionaries

org-mode

init.org for beorg

IPA links

capture templates

journal entry

todo

fancy headline stars

DONE better colour for inline code

CLOSED: [2024-11-21 Thu 09:04]

DONE variable pitch

CLOSED: [2024-11-30 Sat 19:06]

form and element text objects à la vim-sexp

customise the eshell prompt

jump to prev/next hole in haskell

make a bind for inserting hrules

KILL set up emms

CLOSED: [2024-12-11 Wed 13:46]

• BLOCKER: download my music library

it kinda sucks. }:\

set up JuliaMono for use with IPA glyphs

KILL literate config

CLOSED: [2024-12-27 Fri 19:35]

Just kind of a pain in the ass. }:)

evil-cp fixes

( / )

When ) is hit whilst the cursor is at ↓1, it should move to the matching bracket, ↓2, not the right bracket of the save-excursion call.

(save-excursion
;;  ↓1                ↓2
    (re-search-forward))

element text objects

automatically close compilation buffer

fix [e / ]e

unmap TAB in normal mode

eshell trail à la M-x calc

I really like how you re-examined shells and terminals. I hadn't thought of how they're kinda unrelated. What I then don't understand is why eshell stuck to the paradigm of interleaving input and output. It's a relic left over from terminals. ie: >>> input [tonnes of output] >>> input [tonnes of output] to me it seems the input should be entered in the minibuffer (or some separate frame/window) and the outputs should be in a separate window/frame with separate read-only buffers.

source

TODO Dotfiles

• link
• link

TODO Emacs

TODO Bash

TODO shopt -s histverify

Don’t execute expanded result immediately.

DONE (neo)vim

CLOSED: [2024-12-29 Sun 17:53]

TODO readline

DONE disko

CLOSED: [2024-12-28 Sat 18:13]

IDEA refactor disko configs to be more reusable

IDEA replace uses of gpg with age

I don't know anything about either.

TODO password store 4 firefox

DONE password store w/ age

CLOSED: [2024-12-29 Sun 02:34]

https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage

TODO Automatically sync password store

DONE secrets

CLOSED: [2024-12-29 Sun 01:41]

DONE git config

CLOSED: [2024-12-30 Mon 17:01]

TODO niri

Or Qtile

TODO qtile

Or Niri

TODO Convenient way to wrap programs

wrapper-manager looks like it will be really annoying to integrate into my config without a NixOS/HM module.

TODO tf2.nix

• declaratively configure tf2
• tf2Packages?
• mastercomfig integration?
• define aliases / bindings from nix?

TODO mpd

TODO mpdscribble

TODO syncthing

HOLD impermanence

TODO sydnix.defaults module

TODO Split up flake.nix into a file per output

TODO default package sets

Some examples of what I mean:

• defaultPackages.essential = true to install neovim and git;
• defaultPackages.development = true for jj and Emacs.
• defaultPackages.desktop = true for cantata, obs, vlc, vesktop, soulseek;

Naturally, one would expect some way to say "all these, except this and that."

TODO Set envvars

$EDITOR

See choose-editor.

System maintenance scripts

It might be a good idea to namespace these as subcommands of a single binary.

TODO nix-clean

Collect garbage, clean up boot entries, delete old generations…

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-to-do-with-a-full-boot-partition/2049

TODO choose-editor

• If the Emacs daemon is running…

  • …then run emacsclient.

  • …otherwise, prompt the user to choose between Emacs and Vim

    • If Emacs: run emacs.

    • If Vim: In order, try nvim, vim, then vi.

      • If neither are available, use nix run nixpkgs#nvim

        • If this fails, try nano.

TODO forget-host HOST

Remove a given host from ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Something like sed -i -e '/192.168.122.54/d' .ssh/known_hosts.

References

Following is a subset of the many places I've learnt from.

• My darling dearest Faye's wishsys }:D
• rasendubi/dotfiles
• mangoiv/dotfiles
• hlissner/dotfiles
• Shawn8901/nix-configuration
• [cite:@christensen2020erase]
• [cite:@ayats2024dropping]
• [cite:@zaynetdinov2024you]