"Permission denied" error when trying to install doom-emacs about nix-doom-emacs HOT 3 CLOSED

I started with nixos a few days ago [...]

Welcome! I'm very direct but that means I solve problems (:

When I try to install doom-emacs I got this error:

Looks like your doomPrivateDir (/home/victor/doom.d) is missing the required init.el file, you can use this template doom.d.

The README.md file on this repo it's not so friendly for people who is new to nix

Nix is one big dookie and writing documentation isn't nearly as fun as getting things working... (at least for me)

do I have to install emacs with those overlays before installing this package? Or it does it all?

It should do everything:

• You don't actually need this:

    home.file.".emacs.d/init.el".text = ''
      (load "default.el")
    '';

• Or these:

  # services.emacs.package = pkgs.emacsPgtkGcc;
  # nixpkgs.overlays = [
  #   (import (builtins.fetchGit {
  #     url = "https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay.git";
  #     ref = "master";
  #     rev = "c6b057968bbb9a68541ce3edfdf4aa01c32de369";
  #   }))
  # ];

• Or this:

      # emacsPgtkGcc

• But you probably do want this in the home-manager block:

services.emacs = {
 enable = true;
 package = doom-emacs;
};

Now, this will run, but won't configure stuff like fonts for you.. You can fix that by importing the home-manager module and doing something like this.

Some other things I noticed:

• You use a path from /home/victor/doom.d. That doesn't sound very portable, ideally you should be able to copy your NixOS configuration and yote it on another machine and have it build right away.
• You use fetchTarball and specify stuff like ​h​t​t​p​s​://github.com/blah/blah/archive/master.tar.gz. This is bad because your config might build one day and break the next when those URLs update. Nix lets you avoid this mess which is very nice.

Signed,
A bored Nix user distracting themselves from life with ✨fancy packaging tools✨!

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Wow thank you so much for this awesome detailed message :)
I just don't got the fetchTarball part, is it better to use a fixed revision instead of master? That was your point?
Again, thank you, it is working now!

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Wow thank you so much for this awesome detailed message :)

No problem :P

I just don't got the fetchTarball part, is it better to use a fixed revision instead of master? That was your point?

Yeah! I personally use niv but with flakes being popular now you should probably look into them instead.

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