dotfiles/doom.d/modules/literate.org

Literate config setup

• Preclude
• Remove function
• Parser
• Procedure for all files
• Hook on save
• Add hook to org-mode
• Config run

Preclude

My setup to produce a literate configuration. Allows me to write org files all around the doom-private-dir and access them. Also shaved like 0.2s off my loading time.

Remove function

When loading the lisp, we need to load everything excluding "config.el" (preloaded by doom) and "literate.el" (loaded by "config.el"). We'll make a very specific remove function that will remove entries from a given list and return the new list, given the fact that the files variable will be a list of fully expanded file names.

(defun oreodave/literate/variadic-remove (remove-files files)
  (let ((parsed-remove-files (map 'list #'(lambda (i) (expand-file-name (concat doom-private-dir i))) remove-files)))
  (remove-if-not #'(lambda (l) (not (member l parsed-remove-files))) files)))

Parser

First we need to get some sort of parser which can, given a source org file and a destination, parse and produce an Emacs lisp file. We'll copy this from the literate module of doom.

(defun oreodave/literate/tangle (SRC DEST)
  (let ((default-directory doom-private-dir))
    (when (file-newer-than-file-p SRC DEST)
      (let ((output (get-buffer-create "*org-tangle*")))
        (unwind-protect
            (or (and (zerop (call-process
                             "emacs" nil output nil
                             "-q" "--batch"
                             "-l" "ob-tangle"
                             "--eval" (format "(org-babel-tangle-file %S %S)"
                                              SRC DEST)))
                     (with-current-buffer output
                       (message "%s" (buffer-string))
                       t))
                (warn (format "Problem with tanging %S to %S" SRC DEST)))
          (kill-buffer output))))))

Procedure for all files

We need a procedure that parses all the org files in the doom-private-dir and modules directory into Emacs lisp files, using the parser function we've made. Assume all org files in the private directory contribute to the config.

(defun oreodave/literate/tangle-all ()
  (interactive)
  (message "Starting compilation process")
  (let ((files (directory-files-recursively "~/.doom.d/" ".org")))
    (dolist (file files)
      (message "Compiling and parsing %s" file)
      (oreodave/literate/tangle file (replace-regexp-in-string ".org" ".el" file)))))

Hook on save

Now we need to make a hook that, when the current buffer is an org file in the doom directory, will run the literate config procedure from above.

(defun oreodave/literate/compile-hook ()
  (when (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
             (or (file-in-directory-p buffer-file-name doom-private-dir)))
    (oreodave/literate/tangle-all)))

Add hook to org-mode

(after! org
  (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'oreodave/literate/compile-hook))

Config run

Parse all Emacs lisp files. Then load them.

(oreodave/literate/tangle-all) ; Parse
(let ((files (directory-files-recursively "~/.doom.d/" ".org"))) ; Load
    (dolist (file (oreodave/literate/variadic-remove (list "config.org" "modules/literate.org") files))
      (load! (replace-regexp-in-string ".org" ".el" file))))