title:Status Update June 2022
date: 2022-07-07 18:00
tags: status update
summary: Status Update
---

Sorry for the belated status update.

For June I finally submitted my opensmtpd-records code to be reviewed by guix
properly. I am fairly happy about that.  Here is the url:

<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56046>

I also created a short video showing people how you could play with the current
code base.

<https://video.hardlimit.com/w/p/bmbYAkQ84BBfF4aAZNAPcR?playlistPosition=8&resume=true>


# I also fixed Emacs again.  Somehow I lost the ability to send email via Emacs,

which is super annoying.  I committed everything to git, so hopefully I won&rsquo;t do
that again anytime soon.  Here is the gist of how I set up email again:

    ;; I need to use imap to read my dismail inbox...for some reason, my local gnus
    ;; cannot read my local dovecot Inbox...No idea why.
    (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "imap.dismail.de"))
    
    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
          '(
            ;; I would like to use gnus as my maildir, but imap works just fine for now.
            ;; (nnmaildir "dismail.de"
            ;;            (nnir-search-engine notmuch)
            ;;            (nnir-notmuch-additional-switches "search")
            ;;            (directory "~/.mail/dismail/"))
            ;; (nnmaildir "fastmail" (directory "~/.mail/"))
            ;; (nntp "news.gwene.org")
            (nntp "news.gmane.io")
            ;; this makes gnus startup super slow!!! (nnmaildir
            ;; "dismail.de" (directory "~/.mail/dismail.de/"))
    
            (nnimap "gnucode.me"
                    (nnimap-stream ssl)
                    (nnimap-address "imap.gnucode.me")
                    (nnimap-user "joshua"))
    
            ;; this is the right config, but I'm not certain how to set up a dovecot username and password
            (nnimap "localDismail"
                    (nnimap-address "localhost")
                    (nnimap-stream network)
                    (nnimap-server-port 143)
                    )))
    
    ;; use msmtp
    ;; from the emacs wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusMSMTP
    (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
    ;; we substitute sendmail with msmtp
    (setq sendmail-program "/home/joshua/.guix-profile/bin/msmtp")
    ;; This is needed to allow msmtp to do its magic:
    (setq message-sendmail-f-is-evil 't)
    ;;need to tell msmtp which account we're using
    (setq message-sendmail-extra-arguments '("--read-envelope-from"))

# I created a simple debbugs function to help me search for guix packages:

    ;; setting up debbugs
    (require 'debbugs-autoloads)
    ;; send mail function so "C" in the debbugs-gnu-mode works
    (setq send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
    ;; the below doesn't seem to work
    (setq debbugs-gnu-default-packages '("guix" "guix-patches"))
    ;; my defun for searching for a package my bug #
    ;; TODO make this seach by default NOT search for closed bugs
    ;; press x for now.
    (defun my-debbugs-search ()
      (interactive)
      (let (string)
        (setq debbugs-gnu-suppress-closed t)
        (setq string (read-string "Search String: "))
        (debbugs-gnu-search string nil nil "guix" nil)))
    
    (defalias 'my-open-bugs 'debbugs-gnu-tagged)

    my-open-bugs

`M-x my-dubbugs-search RET 56046 RET` is a pretty cool way to search for open
guix bug reports.  Also `M-x debbugs-gnu-search` is broken on doom emacs.  It
keeps prompting you for more input.  It never lets you search.  Weird.

I also found out that in the debbugs-gnu-mode (the buffer that appears after you
search for bugs), you can type in &ldquo;t&rdquo; to tag yourself to open bugs.  This is an
easy way to remind yourself, which buys you want.  Then `M-x my-open-bugs` or
`M-x debbugs-gnu-tagged` shows you a buffer of bugs that you are currently
interested in.

I also learned that I can unarchive, tag, close, and do various other things to bugs by 
pressing the "C" key inside a debbugs-gnu-mode buffer.  I actually closed one of my
old bug reports from inside emacs the other day:  `M-x my-debbugs-search RET 39271`


# I also played with a proposed patch from Ludo yesterday:

`M-x my-debbugs-search 56114`. Basically, it lets you build a gexp and show the
output file from the repl. It&rsquo;s a really nifty patch, and I hope it gets merged
soon.

In order to play with the proposed patch, I had to learn how to apply patches
from debbugs to my local guix-src branch:

First find the patch via issues.guix.gnu.org or debbugs.

guix install emacs-debbugs

M-x my-debbugs-search BugNumber RET

Find the email via debbugs, and type in O m to save the file.

Then open up M-x magit-status RET w m to apply the patch.

magit may give you an odd error. But you can always check the log. Sometimes it
applies the patch, and still gives you an error. In my case, it applied the
patch that I wanted to play with, but then magit thought there were other
patches that I may want to apply. Magit was stuck in "applying patches mode",
and would not let me re-order commits. My fixed this error by typing "w s". "w"
is appylying patches mode. "s" is skip. This fixed the error, and applied the
patch successfully.

This method works fairly well, if you are applying one patch.  But to apply a patch
series, it may be a be a tedious process.

That&rsquo;s where this irc conversation comes in handy:

    
          gnucode │ is there an easy way to apply a patch from debbugs-gnu to my local guix repository?
    unmatched-paren │ gnucode: download the mbox and `git am` away :)
          gnucode │ unmatched-paren that seems very tedious...
    unmatched-paren │ curl might be able to make it easier
          gnucode │ It would be nice if I could apply the patch from emacs and debbugs...just my 2 cents.
          morganw │ I think there is an Emacs package which can apply git patches that are in a mail message.
    unmatched-paren │ I use aerc which allows me to download and apply the mbox automatically, not sure whether $EMACS_MAIL_CLIENT can do that
    unmatched-paren │ aerc command is :pipe -mb git am -3<Enter>
    unmatched-paren │ "pipe the mbox into git am three-way"
          gnucode │ unmatched-paren are you using mbox to read the guix email achives?
    unmatched-paren │ gnucode: what do you mean?
    unmatched-paren │ i think aerc uses maildir by default
          gnucode │ ok.  Maybe I should give aerc a try.  I keep wanting to use emacs for most of my email and everything needs.  But I have a really hard time figuring out how to use it.
          gnucode │ I used to be able to send email via emacs...now I can't.
          morganw │ gnucode: I think this is one some people use: https://git.kyleam.com/piem
    unmatched-paren │ aerc uses vi commands, fyi
          gnucode │ I am using evil-mode
    unmatched-paren │ ah
    unmatched-paren │ gnucode: I'm afraid my patch adding aerc hasn't been merged yet though
    unmatched-paren │ because of the general lack of vi users around here :)
          morganw │ It believe that if you use Gnus there is also a built in command to send the message buffer to a pipe and so something with it.
          morganw │ *do something
          morganw │ Or possibly it was built into message mode, I think I tried it once but I don't remember the exact process.
    unmatched-paren │ maybe there's a way to pipe the mbox too
          gnucode │ I just found this: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/36885/how-do-i-apply-a-patch-from-gnus-to-a-git-repo
          gnucode │ seems promising
    unmatched-paren │ nice!
      ulfvonbelow │ M-> C-<space> M-< M-| <your command here>
      ulfvonbelow │ that works with any buffer btw
          rekado_ │ gnucode: I use mu4e (which uses gnus message mode to display emails) and wired up the mu4e-action-git-apply-mbox action.
          gnucode │ rekado_: do you ever use debbugs?
          rekado_ │ I dog-food mumi / issues.guix.gnu.org
          gnucode │ rekado_: hahah.

See you next time!

