{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.services.emacs; emacsCfg = config.programs.emacs; emacsBinPath = "${emacsCfg.finalPackage}/bin"; emacsVersion = getVersion emacsCfg.finalPackage; # Adapted from upstream emacs.desktop clientDesktopItem = pkgs.makeDesktopItem rec { name = "emacsclient"; desktopName = "Emacs Client"; genericName = "Text Editor"; comment = "Edit text"; mimeType = "text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;"; exec = "${emacsBinPath}/emacsclient ${ concatStringsSep " " cfg.client.arguments } %F"; icon = "emacs"; type = "Application"; terminal = "false"; categories = "Utility;TextEditor;"; extraEntries = '' StartupWMClass=Emacs ''; }; # Match the default socket path for the Emacs version so emacsclient continues # to work without wrapping it. It might be worthwhile to allow customizing the # socket path, but we would want to wrap emacsclient in the user profile to # connect to the alternative socket by default for Emacs 26, and set # EMACS_SOCKET_NAME for Emacs 27. # # As systemd doesn't perform variable expansion for the ListenStream param, we # would also have to solve the problem of matching the shell path to the path # used in the socket unit, which would likely involve templating. It seems of # little value for the most common use case of one Emacs daemon per user # session. socketPath = if versionAtLeast emacsVersion "27" then "%t/emacs/server" else "%T/emacs%U/server"; in { meta.maintainers = [ maintainers.tadfisher ]; options.services.emacs = { enable = mkEnableOption "the Emacs daemon"; client = { enable = mkEnableOption "generation of Emacs client desktop file"; arguments = mkOption { type = with types; listOf str; default = [ "-c" ]; description = '' Command-line arguments to pass to emacsclient. ''; }; }; # Attrset for forward-compatibility; there may be a need to customize the # socket path, though allowing for such is not easy to do as systemd socket # units don't perform variable expansion for 'ListenStream'. socketActivation = { enable = mkEnableOption "systemd socket activation for the Emacs service"; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable (mkMerge [ { assertions = [ { assertion = emacsCfg.enable; message = "The Emacs service module requires" + " 'programs.emacs.enable = true'."; } { assertion = cfg.socketActivation.enable -> versionAtLeast emacsVersion "26"; message = "Socket activation requires Emacs 26 or newer."; } ]; systemd.user.services.emacs = { Unit = { Description = "Emacs: the extensible, self-documenting text editor"; Documentation = "info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/"; # Avoid killing the Emacs session, which may be full of # unsaved buffers. X-RestartIfChanged = false; }; Service = { # We wrap ExecStart in a login shell so Emacs starts with the user's # environment, most importantly $PATH and $NIX_PROFILES. It may be # worth investigating a more targeted approach for user services to # import the user environment. ExecStart = '' ${pkgs.runtimeShell} -l -c "${emacsBinPath}/emacs --fg-daemon${ # In case the user sets 'server-directory' or 'server-name' in # their Emacs config, we want to specify the socket path explicitly # so launching 'emacs.service' manually doesn't break emacsclient # when using socket activation. optionalString cfg.socketActivation.enable "=${escapeShellArg socketPath}" }"''; # We use '(kill-emacs 0)' to avoid exiting with a failure code, which # would restart the service immediately. ExecStop = "${emacsBinPath}/emacsclient --eval '(kill-emacs 0)'"; Restart = "on-failure"; }; } // optionalAttrs (!cfg.socketActivation.enable) { Install = { WantedBy = [ "default.target" ]; }; }; home.packages = optional cfg.client.enable clientDesktopItem; } (mkIf cfg.socketActivation.enable { systemd.user.sockets.emacs = { Unit = { Description = "Emacs: the extensible, self-documenting text editor"; Documentation = "info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/"; }; Socket = { ListenStream = socketPath; FileDescriptorName = "server"; SocketMode = "0600"; DirectoryMode = "0700"; }; Install = { WantedBy = [ "sockets.target" ]; }; }; }) ]); }