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Building reproducible Emacs

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Talkat EmacsConf 2020 · 2020-11-28..11-29· [developer-experience]

speaker

name:Andrew Tropin
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/3p8cJV15AoM
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summary

Claims that Emacs configuration is best treated as system configuration and demonstrates a proof-of-concept using Nix/NixOS to build a whole OS image that includes Emacs, native dependencies (sqlite, binaries), and shared variables. Uses subconfigs with use-package so each module declares emacsPackages, systemPackages, and variables. Shows changing fontSize in Nix rebuilds the SSD image and the terminal and Emacs pick up the new font, and plans a Guix/Guile port.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction to talk
  2. 1:51Emacs configuration challenges
  3. 3:46NixOS for reproducible systems
  4. 7:50Emacs subconfigurations structure
  5. 13:02Future work and Guix plans
  6. 14:09Q&A session

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