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emacs: Use modules.home.config for editable config files
Convert the inline xdg.configFile + mkOutOfStoreSymlink boilerplate to
the new modules.home.config registry. Same behavior — init.el and lisp/
still symlink back to the live tree under ~/.nix so Emacs can edit them
without a home-manager rebuild — but the call site shrinks to the two
relevant lines and the repoPath let-binding goes away.
author
Isaac Corbrey
date
(Jun 5, 2026, 2:55 PM -0400)
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modules/home/emacs/default.nix
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modules/home/emacs/default.nix
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config = let
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emacs = config.modules.home.emacs;
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repoPath = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.nix/modules/home/emacs";
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in lib.mkIf emacs.enable (let
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# Pick the platform-native GUI Emacs backend: pgtk on Linux (native
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# Wayland, no X11), NS/Cocoa on darwin (the default `pkgs.emacs` build).
···
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pkgs.fd
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];
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xdg.configFile."emacs/init.el".source =
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config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "${repoPath}/init.el";
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xdg.configFile."emacs/lisp".source =
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config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "${repoPath}/lisp";
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modules.home.config = {
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"emacs/init.el" = ./init.el;
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"emacs/lisp" = ./lisp;
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};
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});
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}