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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;;; dotfiles.el --- Elisp to make dotfile management -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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;; Author: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
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;;; Commentary:
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;; Quickly edit commonly used files.
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;;; Code:
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;; Dependencies
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(require 'macros)
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(require 'f)
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;; API
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(defconst dotfiles/install-kbds? t
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  "When t, install the keybindings.")
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(defconst dotfiles/directory (getenv "BRIEFCASE")
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  "The root directory of my configuration files.")
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(defconst dotfiles/whitelist
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  `(("compton" . "~/.config/compton.conf")
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    ("dotfiles" . ,dotfiles/directory)
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    ("functions" . "~/functions.zsh")
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    ("aliases" . "~/aliases.zsh")
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    ("variables" . "~/variables.zsh")
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    ("Xresources" . "~/.Xresources.shared")
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    ("xsession" . "~/.xsessionrc.shared")
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    ("tmux" . "~/.tmux.conf")
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    ("zshrc" . "~/.zshrc")
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    ("config.fish" . "~/.config/fish/config.fish")
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    ("configuration.nix" . "~/Dropbox/programming/nixify/configuration.nix")
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    ("init.el" . "~/.emacs.d/init.el")
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    ("init.vim" . "~/.config/nvim/init.vim"))
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  "Dotfiles that I commonly edit.")
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(defun dotfiles/edit ()
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  "Select a dotfile from ivy and edit it in an Emacs buffer."
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  (interactive)
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  (ivy-read
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   "Dotfile: "
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   dotfiles/whitelist
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   :action (>> cdr find-file)))
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(defun dotfiles/find-emacs-file (name)
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  "Call `find-file' on NAME located in dotfiles's emacs.d directory."
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  (find-file
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   (f-join dotfiles/directory "emacs/.emacs.d" name)))
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(provide 'dotfiles)
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;;; dotfiles.el ends here
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