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WEBVTT

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 We'll hit start recording.

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 All right, everyone.

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 Thanks, Andrew, for the great talk.

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 Super cool.

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 So now we have the live Q&A with Andrew.

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 Folks, you can start by asking your questions on the pad.

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 And we will also open up this big blue button

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 room in a few minutes for folks who

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 want to join here and ask questions here directly

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 to Andrew.

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 Thanks again, and take it away, Andrew.

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 OK, thank you.

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 Let's start from pod questions.

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 The first one, do I use this to have multiple configs

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 running

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 side by side for deep comparison?

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 Actually, I have two configurations primary here.

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 The first one is my main configuration

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 for the whole environment, which manages all the dot files.

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 And the second one is virtualenv-like.

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 It creates a new shell with some environment variables.

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 It's set inside it.

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 And it includes Emacs load path and other things

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 to make Emacs able to explore packages

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 inside this small environment.

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 And it removes all unnecessary environment variables,

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 which pollutes the environment.

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 So we have quite a small scope on which only Emacs

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 and a few other packages are available.

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 And as you saw at the end of the talk,

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 it was the example of such small environment

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 where I set up Emacs and all the dependencies from ground

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 up.

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 And actually, the similar thing I

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 use for development of my projects,

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 I have their project environments

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 made in the same way.

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 But usually, I use my primary Emacs instance.

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 But sometimes, it can be kind of mixed.

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 I have a few talks on my YouTube channel.

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 And you can check them out to get more information about it

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.

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 The second--

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 Sorry.

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 One quick request, Andrew.

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 People are saying if you could maybe speak up a little bit

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 more so that they could hear you better, that would be

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 great.

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 OK, sure.

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 Thank you.

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 The second question.

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 Are you using Gix system or Gix on top of another distro?

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 If system, any tips?

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 I tried Gix system, but found getting started

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 was very difficult due to lack of Wi-Fi firmware

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 and incomplete documentation.

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 Personally, I use Gix system, Gix home,

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 Gix as a package manager, and also as a deployment tool

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 for a few services.

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 I started from very basic setup where I didn't have

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 anything

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 and build it piece by piece, including

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 building Gix home project.

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 So yeah, I use Gix system and all the things.

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 And talking about Wi-Fi, first option

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 is to buy a Wi-Fi adapter, which doesn't

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 require proprietary firmware.

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 And another option is finding the firmware and installing

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 it.

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 So it's up to you.

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 Everything actually is relatively easy,

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 and you can relatively easy find the way to do it.

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 The third question.

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 One of the issues I have had managing Emacs packages

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 with Gix is a conflict between Gix package

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 attest read-only and the Emacs package

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 attest hackable in real time.

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 Any suggestions to resolve this?

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 Yes, I have suggestions to resolve this.

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 Actually, it's true.

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 Everything which is in GNU store is read-only.

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 Everything which is built with Gix is almost set in stone,

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 and you can't edit it in real time.

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 But what I do--

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 can I share my screen?

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 One second.

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 I will press a few buttons, and I hope you will see it soon

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.

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 Or maybe not so soon.

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 What I basically do, I take parts of the ELISP,

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 and I have them inside my scheme file

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 that I use to define my home environment and other things.

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 I don't know-- oh, OK.

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 That's it.

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 For example, here, this part is a scheme code.

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 But this part is pure ELISP code.

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 And I can use a direct region and use Emacs ELISP mode here

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.

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 I will need parts, edit those parts, and select.

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 And when I'm fine with all the edits I did here--

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 for example, I can evaluate this form using

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 Control-X, Control-E, and so on.

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 And when I'm good with the results,

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 I can just save it and rebuild my whole home environment

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 and see it on a fresh Emacs instance load

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 from the new configuration and see if everything

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 works here as well.

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 So it's a little less interactive

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 than the usual Emacs configuration,

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 but still works quite well.

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 A question-- what is next for RD?

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 Actually, I have short-term plans and a little more

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 long-term plans.

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 Short-term plan is to make a first release

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 by the end of this year.

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 And this release-- actually, RD is quite usable currently,

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 but there is not much documentation and not

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 so many examples.

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 So I would like to prepare a documentation

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 getting started guide, live CD that you can use

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 for exploration purpose and for installation.

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 And also, I would like to find one or two maintainers which

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 will help with upcoming patches, because it's already

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 at least a few people who use it on a daily basis,

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 and they send a lot of patches.

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 And sometimes I have a hard time keeping up

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 with the speed of creating patches.

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 So the short-term plans is to make a first release

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 by the end of the year.

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 The long-term plans we can discuss later, I think.

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 And I will share them in RD announced mailing list.

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 OK, I think that's it for patterns.

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 Let me check RC.

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 I have-- OK, it seems that I answered all questions

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 that I found.

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 Let me know if something appears.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 Cool, thanks, Andrew.

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 And yeah, I think we still have over 10 minutes, maybe

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 12 minutes or so of live Q&A time on the stream.

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 So if people still have more questions,

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 please feel free to either add them on the pad,

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 or I think you should now also be

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 able to join this big blue button room to ask directly.

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 OK, I see one more question.

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 But I'm not sure what does it mean.

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 Do you use Emacs without this?

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 If so, for what purpose?

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 And how does it feel compared to RD?

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 OK, it's a question in general.

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 No, I don't use Emacs without RD.

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 Actually, all the Emacs configurations I use

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 is based on RD and built from that.

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 There is a way to add almost everything

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 you have in your basic Emacs configuration

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 to your RD Emacs configuration by creating a file

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 in your usual .config/emacsd directory

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 and loading it from your .init/el directory.

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 So you actually can have a very usual Emacs configuration

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 workflow in addition to RD.

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 But I don't use it because it's not a reproducible way

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 to do things because such workflow means

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 that I need to install packages separately somehow,

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 either with gix install or maybe some other package manager

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,

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 or maybe this package manager, like package.al or straight.

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al.

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 And it doesn't work well in the long term

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 because if I move such configuration, which

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 partially RD and partially usual Emacs configuration,

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 it will break on the new machine or maybe somewhere else

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 where I would like to move this configuration later.

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 OK.

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 We have a last slot for Q and A in the pad.

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 [LAUGHS]

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 Thank you, everyone, for joining this talk.

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 It was a pleasure to interview you.

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 I will be here for at least an hour or so

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 before I will go preparing to sleep.

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 So you can reach me by email, RC, here in big blue button

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 or some other way, probably.

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 Are there any plans to push things

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 from RD to gix main channel?

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 Actually, I have a commit access to gix,

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 and I try to upstream everything that

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 can be beneficial for both RD and gix to gix

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 and use it from the upstream.

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 But sometimes on some question, we didn't reach an

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 agreement,

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 or sometimes it's much easier to implement it

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 in a more rapid way, which probably I

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 wouldn't like to add to gix because it will require

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 too much time trying to fit to some gix.

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 So I keep it only in RD.

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 But the things that I see beneficial for both projects,

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 I try to share and to move them to gix.

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 Sounds great.

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 And another reminder for the folks

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 that you can join big blue button also directly.

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 If you want to type your questions into chat here

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 or just ask them over mic or with a microphone,

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 you can do that as well.

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 I think we still have about actually 10 or 12 more minutes.

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 I think I underestimated what we had.

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 So we still have plenty of time for questions.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 Added one more slot for Gondi in case someone

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 would like to fill it.

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 Thanks.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 How difficult is to add support for new packages to gix?

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 Have you found that's burdensome versus package L

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 or other in Emacs package management approach?

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 Actually, I find it quite easy to create packages for gix.

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 Maybe because I'm quite familiar with gix source code.

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 But maybe because it's not that difficult,

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 you just open a respective model like rd packages or gnu

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 packages in gix repository.

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 And you define the package you want.

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 And you define the dependencies you want.

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 Actually, a lot of packages already here in gix.

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 And some of the packages I package in rd

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 and later move to the gix.

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 So it's not hard to reference the dependencies

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 and find the dependencies already declared for you.

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 But what's more important, you can use dependencies not

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 only

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 on Emacs packages, but also on system packages.

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 For example, in my git package, you

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 can use a reference to git binary

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 and predefine the path to the git binary

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 inside a package configuration by fetching the source code

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 or something like that.

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 So any package that requires some system package to work

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 can use the system package as a dependency.

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 And it is a big benefit comparing

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 to other packaging solutions, which

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 can depend only on Elisp packages.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 Do you reckon rd is currently opinionated,

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 or is it a one-size-fits-all framework?

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 I would say it's quite opinionated.

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 I started from really bare-bone Emacs.

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 And I suffered for a while.

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 And I did features one by one very carefully,

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 crafting the current state of rd-emacs.

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 And it's, as I already said, vanilla flavored.

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 I try to stick with Emacs key bindings

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 to use built-in packages over external packages,

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 or use packages which are in the same way,

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 work in a similar manner to built-in packages.

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 So it's not usual.

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 It's not that user-friendly as Doom Emacs or Space Emacs.

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 It's more like a Prelude, or even more vanilla flavored

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 than Prelude.

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 But the good thing is that you can declare a feature

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 yourself.

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 And if you don't like something about rd-emacs provided

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 by features created by me or other contributors,

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 you can use the features declared by yourself

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 or by other people.

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 And one of the plans that I have according to rd,

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 which we are discussing on mailing list right now,

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 is contrib directory, which can include features provided

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 by different people.

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 For example, it's quite often asked to add evils support.

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 But I don't use evils.

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 And I don't want to maintain this package.

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 But I understand that many people

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 use such a way of interacting with text editor.

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 So it would be cool if someone who actually

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 using this feature will be maintaining it

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 in contrib directory.

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 And this feature will be sound with all other features

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 which

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 provided by rd itself.

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 And I think this way, it can cover more people needs

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 that it can cover right now.

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 So it will fit more people.

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 But the core rd won't be expanding its scope.

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 It will be quite focused.

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 How to get into rd is already documentation

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 and getting started guide.

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 There is a repository on source hut,

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 github.com/github/sourcehut/abcdw/rd.

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 And here you can see a very small readme,

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 which probably doesn't give you too much understanding of

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 what

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 is going on.

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 But it has all the necessary links.

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 It has a link to manual.

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 It has information of mailing lists,

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 which you can use to get help.

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 It has information about IRC channel in manual.

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 And you can join this channel and ask questions here.

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 And of course, you can take the source code

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 and take a look at it.

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 And currently, we have examples.

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 And here in examples, my whole configuration of my team

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 is present.

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 It's a little bit drafty.

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 I would like to reorganize this a little

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 to make it easier to follow.

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 And before first release, I hope I will do so.

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 But you can use it as an example, build on [INAUDIBLE]

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 Unfortunately, the documentation

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 is not very extensive.

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 So you can find it a little hard to follow.

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 Or maybe you can find it missing some important things.

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 But before first release, I hope the situation

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 will become a little better.

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 But anyway, you can always ask questions

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 until the documentation is ready.

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 Can you mix RD with custom Emacs init file?

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 Yes, you can.

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 I already mentioned it.

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 You can just define in your init.el

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 the statement that you load some other file

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 and use this file as your usual init.el file.

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 It will work completely OK.

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 And you can partially migrate to RD by using such approach.

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 But I don't recommend this approach in long term.

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 I already mentioned it.

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 But having usual init.el file and managing your

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 dependencies

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 using package.el or straight.el doesn't

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 cover system dependencies and other stuff, which

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 will lead to maybe irreproducible configurations.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 It's the heads up that we have about two more

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 minutes of live Q&A time.

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 And then after that, the stream will move on.

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 But people are welcome to continue asking questions,

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 either on the pad or IRC or by joining the Speakable button

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 room directly.

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 Thanks again, Andrew.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 Actually, I didn't expect so much questions.

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 And when I first took a look at the pad

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 and thought, OK, those six slots for Q&A will be enough.

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 Yeah, it's always a nice surprise, I guess.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 I hope everyone will be OK with jumping windows around,

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 because I switch between workspaces.

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 And it may be a little too noisy.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 Yeah, I think it's fine for the most part.

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 It was a bit of an interesting thing

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 trying to keep up the stream with it, because by default,

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 we maximize the speaker's webcam.

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 But then you're also sharing your screen

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 and sharing important details.

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 So we were also trying to get that on the stream as well.

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 But yeah, it was fine.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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 OK, I think that there's no more questions.

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 And we can finish in this section.

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 All right, sounds good.

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 Thanks again, Andrew, for the great talk.

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 As a fellow Tiling Window Manager user and GNU gigs--

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 well, former committer, but still very much enthusiast,

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 I'm very much interested in this.

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 So I know I'll definitely be checking your work out.

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 So thanks again.

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 Thank you very much for organization

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 and all your contributions.

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 Very much appreciated.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 Appreciate it.

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 All right, take care.

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 And we'll see you around.

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 Bye-bye.

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 Bye.

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 [AUDIO OUT]

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