Tagged with: emacs

Blogging with Sphinx and denote.el

If you have spent any time following the Emacs community, you will have likely come across the denote.el project. denote.el defines a clever file-naming scheme and provides an associated Emacs package containing utilities for managing files which follow this naming scheme.

In this blog post I outline how I have adopted denote.el to manage the content on this site and how I’ve extended Sphinx to take advantage this.

Intstalling Emacs with systemd-sysext

One issue with building Emacs from source, or more specifically my hack to ensure that the required system libraries are available on Aurora, is that in some situations the system version of Emacs “wins”.

For example, I wanted to experiment with running the Emacs daemon through systemd:

$ systemctl --user start emacs

Which failed to load my config correctly. It was only after a closer look did I realise that despite specifying the --user flag, systemd was defaulting to the emacs.service file provided by the system emacs package in /usr/... and was therefore running Emacs v29 and not my v30 build.

But then I stumbled across systemd-sysext