#nixos-emacs on 2020-04-23

2019-08-08 09:22 ChanServ changed the topic of #nixos-emacs to: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/66303 | https://rms.sexy

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11:17 <mjhoy> hello. i'm curious about how often melpa is updated, on e.g. 20.03? it looks like the last time was 2020-01-08, is that right? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/release-20.03/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes

11:17 <etu> Not often at all

11:18 <etu> But we have an overlay updated several times a day

11:18 <mjhoy> etu: that's this? https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay

11:19 <etu> Yes :)

11:19 <mjhoy> i don't actually know what an overlay is. is there a guide for that?

11:20 <etu> ,overlays

11:20 <{^_^}> etu: Did you mean overlay?

11:20 <{^_^}> Overlays look like `self: super: { foo = ...; }`. Use the self argument to get dependencies, super for overriding things and library functions (including callPackage). More info: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-overlays-install

11:20 <etu> mjhoy: We also have an example in the readme

11:21 etu changed the topic of #nixos-emacs to: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/66303 | https://rms.sexy

11:22 <mjhoy> would i define a ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays.nix, adding { nixpkgs.overlays = [ ... ] } there?

11:22 <etu> I usually just put it in my configuration.nix

11:22 <etu> https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay#latest-master-each-rebuild

11:22 <etu> That snippet should work in the regular config :)

11:23 <mjhoy> i am using nixpkgs on osx, so i don't think i have a configuration.nix would that also work in config.nix? (sorry i get confused with all of this)

11:24 <etu> ohh, macos

11:24 <etu> I've never used macos

11:38 <mjhoy> cool, looks like if i put [ (import (builtins.fetchTarball { ... })) ] in ~/.config/nipkgs/overlays.nix, it works!

11:38 <mjhoy> thanks etu

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