dotfiles VS cnotes

Check out https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles and the SystemCrafters YouTube channel and Github page. Lots of good stuff there for full system configuration.

Then check out the System Crafters website. There is a youtube channel, but David Wilson's notes and his dotfiles are quicker to navigate if you know what you're looking for.

I was watching some videos and saw this https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org, which is HUUUGE. Is there some other resource that I can just start with one piece/package at a time and keep adding more slowly?

Explanation for not using sudo -E: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/issues/11

I'm trying to create a configuration with a base-system module with multiple machine configurations deriving from it, based on the example shared by David Wilson in his github repo: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles

You should avoid using sudo -E or your home directory is slowly gonna fill up with root-owned files.

Lisp take a while to learn, but you really don't need too much knowledge. I would recommend using blocks of code from others' configs as a beginner.

While watching a Systems Crafters playlist about emacs I decided I wanted to checkout his configuration to see if it had anything I would find useful. As his style of development is different from mine I did not find a whole lot, but I did find something useful. In his init.el he has a section that moves files like places to a different directory to keep his ~/.emacs.d clean. As I keep my ~/.emacs.d directory as a symbolic link to my dotfiles repository I immediately added this to my configuration; however, it does not seem to work at least as I expected it to. Within my init.el I have a block of code that is copied from his, but modified slightly to create ~/.cache/emacs if it does not already exist, and then apply the changes to where these files should be stored. I don't seem to get any errors, but this also does not seem to change where those files get stored. Am I misunderstanding what his block of code does?

I use this.

The help page came up. I am am testing it on a common-lisp program I am working on: https://gitlab.com/FOSSilized_Daemon/cnotes/-/blob/lisp-rewrite/src/cnotes.lisp

I am working on implementing command-line arguments for a program I am writing. I have a main function (I call them init functions) that I use to setup everything needed for the other code within my program to function properly. In that main function I have this code that handles my command-line arguments using unix:opts, but for some reason it is not working. Using this test.sh script I tried to run ./test.sh --help, but sbcl just complained that arguments was defined but never used.

Shamless Plug (under a rewrite for common-lisp so if you like the shell version fork it while you can). Also, good job taking notes on install issues! I think there is a program that sends those issues upstream, but I could be thinking of a different OS.

Yep! I just found that on another documentation page. Finally working! Thank you so much.

I have been working on learning lisp for about a month now and am working writing my first program on my own. For this project I decided I wanted to rewrite a shell script I use often called cnotes as this project is mainly just working with the basics of the language. The issue I am facing is with writing a function to get shell environment variables. In C I did this using the getenv function and in shell this is rather simple, lisp however seems more difficult in that this has not been standardized within common lisp. I did some research and found this post which gives a function to get environment variables. Being new to lisp I don't fully understand everything this does, but from what I can gather reading the code and the documentation it works like this:

For this makefile I copied what I used for cnotes which works well.