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I’ve been toying with the idea of switching from stow to home-manager, but I feel like there’s a lot of friction in the form of hard to answer questions. For e

I’ve been toying with the idea of switching from stow to home-manager, but I feel like there’s a lot of friction in the form of hard to answer questions. For example, my emacs config is a literate org file, which is important to me. It is large and complicated and I don’t feel like it’s a good fit for an “all my configs together” solution. I’m not sure how that would fit into home manager and while I’m sure the answer is in the docs somewhere it just seems hard enough to get to that it stops me from really digging in.

ryangibb 4y ago
I'm not all too familiar with emacs, but is https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-home.file https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#op... or https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-xdg.configFile https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#op... what you're looking for? They just symlink a config file into $HOME or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME respectively.
akavel 4y ago
Not sure if that would be good enough for you, but: 1. There's some syntax for importing files "raw" as strings; I don't recall details now from memory, but it's used extensively e.g. to load contents of .patch files. So you could have an Org file and get it imported. 2. I suspect there's some "smart wrapper" (so-called "module") for emacs in home-manager; it could conflict with your one. But using the "modules" is not mandatory; you can just have h-m put raw files in your ~/.emacs/ dir or whatsit, and add emacs in your $PATH. The thing that may be most tricky would be plugins - sure doable, but could need some nontrivial work. Alternatively, you could try seeing if the emacs module has some "extraConfig" field or something similar, and plug your literate Org there.
ParetoOptimal 4y ago
> For example, my emacs config is a literate org file, which is important to me. It is large and complicated and I don’t feel like it’s a good fit for an “all my configs together” solution. I have a literate config that works with home-manager. The problem is the 800 noweb-ref blocks took 10+ seconds to tangle. I reported it, and someone optimized tangling to 0.5 seconds. I'm still using the custom patches though since the changes haven't been released or maybe even merged yet.

ryangibb 4y ago

I'm not all too familiar with emacs, but is https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-home.file https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#op... or https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-xdg.configFile https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#op... what you're looking for? They just symlink a config file into $HOME or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME respectively.

akavel 4y ago

Not sure if that would be good enough for you, but: 1. There's some syntax for importing files "raw" as strings; I don't recall details now from memory, but it's used extensively e.g. to load contents of .patch files. So you could have an Org file and get it imported. 2. I suspect there's some "smart wrapper" (so-called "module") for emacs in home-manager; it could conflict with your one. But using the "modules" is not mandatory; you can just have h-m put raw files in your ~/.emacs/ dir or whatsit, and add emacs in your $PATH. The thing that may be most tricky would be plugins - sure doable, but could need some nontrivial work. Alternatively, you could try seeing if the emacs module has some "extraConfig" field or something similar, and plug your literate Org there.

ParetoOptimal 4y ago

> For example, my emacs config is a literate org file, which is important to me. It is large and complicated and I don’t feel like it’s a good fit for an “all my configs together” solution. I have a literate config that works with home-manager. The problem is the 800 noweb-ref blocks took 10+ seconds to tangle. I reported it, and someone optimized tangling to 0.5 seconds. I'm still using the custom patches though since the changes haven't been released or maybe even merged yet.