Add support to doom

[drym3r]

Hi!
This package seems very interesting, thanks for your work. I'm triying to make it work with doom, but it doesn't. It would be very useful if you could add support for it.

[plexus]

Hi @drym3r,

I appreciate your interest, but your issue is asking me to do free work without providing any meaningful information.

I've never used doom, in fact this is the first I hear of it. I'm not sure what the problem can be since Chemacs is a very general purpose tool, it shouldn't need "support" for specific configs. That said if we can figure out what the problem is, and if it's something that we can fix, then I'll happily consider a pull request from you or someone else.

Meanwhile it would be helpful to add as much relevant information as possible. What steps did you take? What did you expect to happen? What happened instead? Did you get any errors, warnings, or other output? etc.

Thanks,
Arne

[drym3r]

Sure, I'll try to add as much information as I can. I'm not an expert, so I'll do what I can. My .emacs-profiles.el is:

(("default" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/.emacs.d")))
  ("doom" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/Proyectos/doom/"))))

When I execute emacs --with-profile doom, it fails with:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/ap/.emacs’:

File error: Cannot open load file, The file or directory doesn't exists, core-lib

The ~/Proyectos/doom/init.el file contains, among other:

(require 'core (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core"))

That said, I'll add that the doom is an opiniated emacs configuration which tries with various ways to speed up the emacs startup.

If I can add more information, I'll happily do it.

[plexus]

Thanks, that's helpful. Maybe one of the Doom folks has an idea what's going. It seems they precompile a lot of stuff, maybe you have to make sure that precompilation also happens with the right profile so it refers to the right user-emacs-directory. cc @hlissner

[mandarvaze]

I'm able to get doom working (at least it loaded successfully)

My entry is as follows :

("doom" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/doom-emacs")))

(This is similar to the entry listed by @drym3r)
Steps I followed : (Not different than ones listed here

1. Cloned doom repo into ~/doom-emacs
2. Copied example init file to init.el
3. make install
4. emacs --with-profile doom &

(I'm on emacs 26.1 if it matters)

[hlissner]

You may want to set doom-private-dir too, since Doom has its own dotfile. e.g.

("doom" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/doom-emacs")
           (doom-private-dir . "~/doom-config")))

The only caveat is Doom's package management is done externally, through bin/doom (which will eventually replace make). Fortunately, all bin/dooms commands are localized to wherever it is running from, so a Doom install is portable.

I haven't tries chemacs myself, but this should get the two working (assuming the above profile):

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/doom-emacs
~/doom-emacs/bin/doom -p ~/doom-config quickstart
emacs --with-profile doom &

Let me know if that gives you any trouble!

---

For the curious, bin/doom -p ~/doom-config quickstart is a shortcut for:

mkdir ~/doom-config
cp ~/doom-emacs/init.example.el ~/doom-config/init.el
touch ~/doom-config/config.el
bin/doom install

Also: -p DIR sets doom-private-dir, which defaults to ~/.doom.d (or ~/.config/doom if it exists), and -e DIR sets user-emacs-directory.

[plexus]

Thanks @hlissner for chiming in!

("doom" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/doom")
           (doom-private-dir . "~/doom-config")))

This won't work, Chemacs doesn't know what doom-private-dir is. If there's enough interest we could add the ability to set arbitrary variables, similar to how env works, but currently that's not there. See the README for what's supported.

[hlissner]

Oh! I assumed incorrectly. In that case, I'll add a DOOMDIR envvar for setting doom-private-dir (been meaning to do this), so I trust this will work instead?

("doom" . ((user-emacs-directory . "~/doom-emacs")
           (env . (("DOOMDIR" . "~/doom-config")))))

EDIT: And done!

[plexus]

Yes, that would be great!

[mandarvaze]

@hlissner How do I update my doom installation with your changes ? (Especially since your changes are in develop branch.

[hlissner]

@mandarvaze Are you already using the develop branch? I'd recommend you do, if not. It is almost 2k commits ahead of master (a result of some bad planning, but it's due to be merged into master by this weekend, after which I'll resume a more sane release schedule).

If you are on develop, use bin/doom upgrade.

If you are far back on develop where this command may not work or exist, then do the following from your Doom directory:

doom clean  # remove elc files, if you've run 'doom compile' before
doom sync

Hope that helps!

[drym3r]

It works very well, thanks @hlissner and @plexus!

[plexus]

Cool! If anyone feels like adding a Doom section to the README, next to the Spacemacs section, that'd be super awesome :)

[mandarvaze]

@plexus Done. See #6

[JohnMacIsaac]

@plexus
Ok, I've got it so that I can open/run two versions of emacs (vanilla emacs and spacemacs) in two terminal frames. But how do you open/run two GUI versions of emacs?

It would be great if we could
open spotlight and type "emacs" to open a GUI version of (vanilla) emacs, and then
open spotlight and type "spacemacs" to open a GUI version of spacemacs.