Any emacs home manager config examples examples?

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I’m trying to set up emacs here’s my bare bones config:

services.emacs.enable = true;

programs.emacs = {
    enable = true;
    package = pkgs.emacs;  # replace with pkgs.emacs-gtk, or a version provided by the community overlay if desired.
	extraPackages = epkgs: [ epkgs.dracula-theme ];
	extraConfig = ''
      (setq standard-indent 2)
 '';
  };

issues are is that it isn’t making the tab indents two spaces and I’m trying to look around for examples to see what to do but there isn’t any

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Can you check if the file is generated into ~/.config/emacs? Do you perhaps by any chance already have ~/.emacs.d. GNU Emacs have transitioned to the new folders, but if the old ones exist they will take precedence. I do have an Emacs configuration using home manager, but I’m also using a bunch of other tools to manage it, so it is probably not what you are looking for:

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You can take a look at this repo. It’s based on the home-manager module emacs-init.

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so is emacs looking at what’s inside of .emacs.d? there’s no .el files so do I take out the folder or do I do a different workaround?

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programs.emacs.extraConfig doesn’t place configuration files under the home directory. It instead generates default.el, which is added to load-path by a launcher script generated by Home Manager.

default.el is the initialization script meant for use by downstream. Notably, it doesn’t load if inhibit-default-init is set.

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interesting. I’ve been doing more and as it turns out it works fine on normal emacs but not on emacsclient. what seems to be the solution here?

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I’m not sure because it works for me. Maybe this can help diagnose your problem:

  • Run M-x find-library and enter default.
  • Run M-x describe-variable and enter standard-indent.
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for the first one there’s no default for the second it just brings me to a menu

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btw I don’t have an init.el file do I have to have that for this problem to not exist anymore?

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I prefer to keep the init.el outside Nix.
Nix (home-manager) merely installs the packages.
I use home.files module to install the dotfile.

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Do you by any chance use Emacs configuration frameworks like Doom Emacs? I forgot about this, but I use Doom Emacs and it disables the loading of default.el. I had to load it explicitly in my configuration.

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I also keep my Emacs configuration outside of Nix. Well, mostly. But FWIW programs.emacs.extraConfig is useful when you need to refer to Nix store paths in your Emacs configuration.

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no I do not, I’m manually configuring. I might just use the other replies solution of having my emacs configuration outside of nix. It sucks but whtever

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so install the packages , then configure everything in emacs standalone?

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ok so I have installed doom emacs, and it’s still the same issue, so either it’s a nixos issue or systemd issue

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Yes. Just a truckload of use-packages and voilà!

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never mind it just worked