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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| ;;; constants.el --- Constants for organizing my Emacs -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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| ;; Authpr: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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| 
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| ;;; Commentary:
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| ;; This file contains constants that are shared across my configuration.
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| 
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| ;;; Code:
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| ;; Dependencies
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| 
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| (require 'prelude)
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| (require 'f)
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| ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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| ;; Configuration
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| ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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| 
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| ;; TODO: Consider merging `ui.el' and `misc.el' because those are the only
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| ;; current consumers of these constants, and I'm unsure if the indirection that
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| ;; globally defined constants introduces is worth it.
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| 
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| (defconst constants/current-project "~/briefcase/blog"
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|   "Variable holding the directory for my currently active project.")
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| 
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| (prelude/assert (f-directory? constants/current-project))
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| 
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| (defconst constants/mouse-kbds
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|   '([mouse-1] [down-mouse-1] [drag-mouse-1] [double-mouse-1] [triple-mouse-1]
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|     [mouse-2] [down-mouse-2] [drag-mouse-2] [double-mouse-2] [triple-mouse-2]
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|     [mouse-3] [down-mouse-3] [drag-mouse-3] [double-mouse-3] [triple-mouse-3]
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|     [mouse-4] [down-mouse-4] [drag-mouse-4] [double-mouse-4] [triple-mouse-4]
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|     [mouse-5] [down-mouse-5] [drag-mouse-5] [double-mouse-5] [triple-mouse-5])
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|   "All of the mouse-related keybindings that Emacs recognizes.")
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| (defconst constants/fill-column 80
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|   "Variable used to set the defaults for wrapping, highlighting, etc.")
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| (provide 'constants)
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| ;;; constants.el ends here
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