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.
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| (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 | ||||
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