Why use [[https://www.flycheck.org/][flycheck]] over the built-in =flymake=? Speed used to be the advantage, however, I’m now pushing this stuff to LSP, so speed is less of an issue. However, what about when I am not using LSP? Also, since I’ve hooked up grammar stuff to it, I need this with global keybindings.
However, I’m interested in using [[https://devdocs.io/][devdocs]] instead, which is similar, but keeps it all /inside/ Emacs (and works on my Linux system). There are seems to be two competing Emacs projects for this.
The Emacs [[https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el][devdocs]] project is active, and seems to work well. Its advantage is a special mode for moving around the documentation.
The [[https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-devdocs-browser][devdocs-browser]] project acts similar, but with slightly different command names. Its advantage is that it allows for downloading docs and having it available offline, in fact, you can’t search for a function, until you download its pack. This is slightly faster because of this.
The [[https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/][LSP]] is a way to connect /editors/ (like Emacs) to /languages/ (like Lisp)… wait, no, it was originally designed for VS Code and probably Python, but we now abstract away [[https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi][Jedi]] and the [[http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/latest/][Emacs integration to Jedi]] (and duplicate everything for Ruby, and Clojure, and…).
I will want to start adding commands under my =SPC m= mode-specific key sequence leader, but in the meantime, all LSP-related keybindings are available under ~⌘-m~. See [[https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/keybindings/][this page]] for the default keybindings.
The [[https://github.com/tigersoldier/company-lsp][company-lsp]] offers a [[http://company-mode.github.io/][company]] completion backend for [[https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode][lsp-mode]]:
The [[https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-origami][lsp-origami]] project integrates the [[https://github.com/gregsexton/origami.el][origami]] project with LSP for /better code folding/:
As I've mentioned [[http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/beep-for-emacs.html][on my website]], I've created a [[file:~/website/Technical/Emacs/beep-for-emacs.org][beep function]] that notifies when long running processes complete.
The idea of using math symbols for a programming languages keywords is /cute/, but confusing when working with other people, and they are looking at my screen:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle no
(set-ligatures! 'python-mode nil)
#+END_SRC
The rest of the ligature system in Doom is nice.
** Task Runner
I've replaced my home-grown compilation list code with a more versatile [[https://github.com/emacs-taskrunner/emacs-taskrunner][Taskrunner project]].
Doom provides basic support, but we need more keybindings:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle no
(map! :leader :prefix "p"
:desc "Project tasks" "Z" 'ivy-taskrunner
:desc "Reun last task" "z" 'ivy-taskrunner-rerun-last-command)
#+END_SRC
While my company is typically using =Rakefile= and =Makefile= in the top-level project, I want to have my personal tasks set per-project as well. For that, I thought about using [[https://pydoit.org/][doit]], where I would just create a =dodo.py= file that contains:
#+BEGIN_SRC python :tangle no
def hello():
"""This command greets you."""
return {
'actions': [ 'echo hello' ],
}
#+END_SRC
** Display Configuration
Using the [[https://github.com/seagle0128/doom-modeline][Doom Modeline]] to add notifications:
The [[help:ansible-vault-password-file][ansible-vault-password-file]] variable needs to change /per project/, so let’s use the =.dir-locals.el= file, for instance:
However, let’s have all YAML files able to access Ansible’s documentation using the [[https://github.com/emacsorphanage/ansible-doc][ansible-doc]] project:
The [[https://github.com/emacsmirror/poly-ansible][poly-ansible]] project uses [[https://polymode.github.io/][polymode]], gluing [[https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/jinja2-mode][jinja2-mode]] into [[https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode][yaml-mode]].
The [[https://github.com/luxbock/evil-cleverparens][evil-cleverparens]] solves having me create keybindings to the [[https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens][smartparens]] project by updating the evil states with Lisp-specific bindings.
I would like to have a list of what keybindings do what:
- ~M-h~ / ~M-l~ move back/forward by functions
- ~H~ / ~L~ move back/forward by s-expression
- ~M-i~ insert at the beginning of the form
- ~M-a~ appends at the end of the form
- ~M-o~ new form after the current sexp
- ~M-O~ new form /before/ the current sexp
- ~M-j~ / ~M-k~ drags /thing at point/ and back and forth in the form
- ~>~ slurp forward if at the end of form, at beginning, it barfs backwards
- ~<~ slurp backward if at start of form, at the end, it barfs forwards
- ~M-(~ / ~M-)~ wraps next/previous form in parens (braces and brackets work too)
- ~x~ unwraps if the point is on the =(= of an expression.
- ~D~ deletes an entire s-expression, but this can depend on the position of the point.
The other advantage is moving around by s-expressions. This takes a little getting used to, for instance:
- ~[~ and ~]~ move from paren to paren, essentially, from s-expression.
- ~H~ and ~L~ act similarly to the above.
- ~(~ and ~)~ move up to the parent s-expression
Other nifty keybindings that I need to commit to muscle memory include:
| ~M-q~ | =sp-indent-defun= |
| ~M-J~ | =sp-join-sexp= |
| ~M-s~ | =sp-splice-sexp= |
| ~M-S~ | =sp-split-sexp= |
| ~M-t~ | =sp-transpose-sexp= |
| ~M-v~ | =sp-convolute-sexp= |
| ~M-r~ | =sp-raise-sexp= |
***** Eval Current Expression
A feature I enjoyed from Spacemacs is the ability to evaluate the s-expression currently containing the point. Not sure how how they made it, but cleverparens can help:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun ha-eval-current-expression ()
"Evaluates the expression the point is currently 'in'.
It does this, by jumping to the end of the current
expression (using evil-cleverparens), and evaluating what it
finds at that point."
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(evil-cp-next-closing)
(evil-cp-forward-sexp)
(call-interactively 'eval-last-sexp)))
#+END_SRC
And we just need to bind it. The following is Doom-specific:
I'm going to play with the [[https://github.com/DogLooksGood/parinfer-mode][parinfer]] package.
*** Lispy
Sacha had an [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2021/04/emacs-making-a-hydra-cheatsheet-for-lispy/][interesting idea]] to /generate/ a Hydra from a mode map:
While I don't like writing them, I can't get away from them.
While filename extensions work fine most of the time, I don't like to pre-pend =.sh= to the few shell scripts I write, and instead, would like to associate =shell-mode= with all files in a =bin= directory:
*Note:* we make the script /executable/ by default. See [[https://emacsredux.com/blog/2021/09/29/make-script-files-executable-automatically/][this essay]] for details, but it appears that the executable bit is only turned on if the script has a shebang at the top of the file.
