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Madeleine Sydney 276cd7fbec feat(emacs): Persist data and cache dirs
This will now persist the project list.
2025-02-17 10:00:36 -07:00

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{ config, lib, pkgs, inputs, ... }@args:
# NOTE: Remember to wrap `programs.emacs.finalPackage` rather than pass a
# wrapped package to `programs.emacs.package`, lest some unexpected behaviour
# occur when home-manager calls emacs during the build process.
let
emacsPackage = pkgs.emacs30-pgtk;
emacsConfigDir = "/persist/dots/users/crumb/programs/emacs";
emacs-overlay =
import (builtins.fetchTarball {
url =
"https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz";
sha256 = "sha256:02aln37ch9isz8h7dlm9v6jkl60g923z0dij0rjsxq7xi61fas2j";
});
# Create a new instance of nixpkgs with emacs-overlay applied. This is a
# little unorthodox, but we do it
# 1. for the sake of organisation — For pure aesthetics and a clean
# codebase, I want everything Emacs to stay in this file;
# 2. and, there's simply no need to leak emacs-overlay's packages into the
# global nixpkgs instance when nothing else is using it!
pkgs' = import inputs.nixpkgs {
system = args.system;
overlays = [ emacs-overlay ];
};
emacsDataDir = "${config.xdg.dataHome}/emacs";
emacsCacheDir = "${emacsDataDir}/cache";
straightBaseDir = "${emacsDataDir}/straight";
fontPackages = [
pkgs.julia-mono
pkgs.nerd-fonts.victor-mono
pkgs.overpass
];
emacsWrapper = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
name = "emacs-wrapper";
paths = [ emacsPackage ];
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
buildInputs = [
pkgs.git # Dependency of Straight.el.
];
postBuild = ''
# The binary called `emacs` is actually a symlink to `emacs-«version»`, so
# we needn't wrap it.
for i in $out/bin/emacs-*; do
wrapProgram "$i" \
--add-flags "--init-directory \"${emacsConfigDir}\"" \
--set EMACS_STRAIGHT_BASE_DIR "${straightBaseDir}" \
--set EMACS_CACHE_DIR "${emacsCacheDir}" \
--set EMACS_DATA_DIR "${emacsDataDir}" \
--prefix PATH : "${pkgs.git}/bin"
done
'';
};
emacsclient-or-emacs = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "emacsclient-or-emacs" ''
emacsclient --alternate-editor=${emacsWrapper}/bin/emacs "$@"
'';
in {
sydnix.impermanence.cache.directories =
# Impermanence expects the path to be relative to ~.
map (lib.removePrefix config.home.homeDirectory) [
straightBaseDir
emacsCacheDir
emacsDataDir
];
# Set emacsclient as the default editor for the time being.
home.sessionVariables =
let e = "${emacsclient-or-emacs}/bin/emacsclient-or-emacs";
in {
"EDITOR" = e;
"VISUAL" = e;
};
home.file =
let default =
lib.removePrefix "${config.home.homeDirectory}/"
"${straightBaseDir}/straight/versions/default.el";
in {
${default}.source =
config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink
"/persist/dots/users/crumb/programs/emacs/straight-lockfile.el";
};
home.packages = [
emacsWrapper
emacsclient-or-emacs
] ++ fontPackages;
# There's probably a better place to put this, but the current setup demands
# Fontconfig for Emacs to find my fonts.
fonts.fontconfig.enable = true;
# TODO: Make sure this is using the right package for Emacs...
services.emacs = {
enable = true;
# Generate a desktop entry for emacsclient.
client.enable = true;
package = emacsWrapper;
};
}