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by bloopernova 898 days ago
I am intrigued by this line in the description:

"Super Fast Emacs: Bleeding edge Emacs that fixes itself, thanks to a community overlay"

Could you possibly tell me (or link to the explanation) what's special about that Emacs instance?

https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config/blob/main/module... -- This file appears to be part of it, but I'm not very experienced with Nix so I am unsure of how to find the file that says: "install Emacs by doing this, that, and the other".

I use this homebrew cask and have been very happy with it thus far, but I'm always up for some new exploration. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

EDIT2: oh lordy, this snippet:

  (setq org-todo-keyword-faces
    `(("TODO" . ,dl/green-color)
      ("STARTED" . ,dl/yellow-color)
      ("WAITING" . ,dl/light-grey-color)
      ("DELEGATED" . ,dl/teal-color)
      ("DEFERRED" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
      ("SOMEDAY" . ,dl/purple-color)
      ("DONE" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
      ("CANCELED" . ,dl/dark-grey-color)
      ("PROJECT" . ,dl/blue-color)
      ("APPT" . ,dl/green-color)))
Do you use all of those? Interesting that you are using the state as a kind of tagging system. Very cool! I'm also envious of your org tangle setup.

oh and the links at the top of that file are 404s.

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I don't see anything about that in the .org or adjacent .el file, but it could be an outdated (or just as-yet-unseen) reference to using a community overlay of emacs-next that rolls back from breaking changes.
interesting, thank you for the info.
The project uses this overlay: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay

What that means is if something is broken in Emacs, the community will fix it, and all I need to do is run `nix flake update` to grab the latest commit and then `nix run .#build-switch` to alter my system. Easy.

Thanks for the heads-up on the 404s! I've fixed those links.

In re: to org-agenda, I don't use that as much anymore. But I heavily, heavily using org-roam w/ org-roam-dailies everyday to build my own networked graph of notes. For tasks, nowadays I just use simple docs for projects and Asana to keep a catalog of everything.