Making Emacs Popular Again

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by brlewis on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:52PM (#23111232)

> The fact that I have a non trivial .emacs file ensures that when I switch machines, I only have to transfer a single file to enable an identical development environment.

I just want to pull this particular sentence out for emphasis in case anyone is reading the "New employee 2 workflow at company X" comment and thinking that it's even the least bit true.

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by danieldk on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:03AM (#23111566)

For me it is

    home-manager switch

and I don't only have my full Emacs configuration, but a full development environment with Rust, Go, etc. Though you could probably also configure VS Code that way.

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by sterlind on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:44AM (#23112044)

Nix support for VS Code is pretty painful. Only a tiny subset of extensions are listed in nixpkgs, and those are often broken (e.g. Python) when old binary versions are pulled from the CDN.

If somebody could make a VS code extension that seamlessly pulls down other extensions by altering the nix config, it'd be perfect.

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by danieldk on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:31AM (#23112293)

Thanks for the information! I haven't tried configuring VS Code through Nix yet. I guess I'll wait a while before doing another attempt.

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