Add services.emacs.startWithUserSession boolean to indicate that Emacs
must be started with the systemd user session. This is true by default
unless socket activation is also true.
In the past, the user had to choose between socket activation (to get
the Emacs service started when the user uses emacsclient) and
immediate start with the user session. When choosing immediate start
over socket activation and if the Emacs service is stopped at some
point, using emacsclient would start a new Emacs daemon but the
service would still be turned off. This situation would prevent
`home-manager switch` from completing successfully because it wouldn't
be able to start the Emacs service as Emacs is already running.
This new setting makes it possible to have both socket activation and
immediate start at the same time. In this scenario, Emacs is started
with the user session and, after the Emacs service is stopped, using
emacsclient starts the service again.
This new settings also makes it possible to have neither socket
activation nor immediate start.
When running a socket-activated emacs service, we don't want emacs to
remove the socket file after exiting, because then subsequent
invocations of `emacsclient` won't be able to use the socket to start
emacs.service again.
Emacs 27 added Type=notify support and updated the service definition to
remove the use of `emacsclient' to kill the service. Emacs 28 changes
the `StartupWMClass' in emacsclient.desktop to `Emacsd'. Update our
emacs.service and emacsclient.desktop definitions to match upstream
changes.
When killing emacs.service, the socket is removed, and subsequently
starting the service manually results in a service without a socket.
Prevent this by adding `RefuseManualStart=true' to the service's Unit
definition.
Drop Emacs 26 support as it is no longer shipped in nixpkgs. Update the
tests to verify the following configuration scenarios:
- Emacs version: 27, 28
- Socket activation: disabled, enabled
Emacs populates 'exec-path' at launch from the 'PATH' environment
variable. Likewise, the emacs derivation from nixpkgs populates
'load-path' from the 'NIX_PROFILES' variable. As neither of these are
available by default in the systemd user manager, revert to the
previous behavior of launching the Emacs daemon from a login shell.
Fixes#1354Fixes#1340
PR #1355
Add 'services.emacs.socketActivation.enable' for generating an
'emacs.socket' systemd unit.
Emacs since version 26 has supported socket activation, whereby an
external process manager such as systemd listens on a socket and passes
it to the Emacs daemon when the manager launches it. This improves
startup time of the user session and avoids launching the daemon when not
needed, for example when launching the user session via SSH.
This implementation hard-codes the socket path to the default for the
version of 'programs.emacs.finalPackage', because systemd does not
perform shell expansion in the socket unit's 'ListenStream' parameter
and it seems like an advanced use-case to change the socket path. Shell
expansion would be desirable as the socket path usually resides in
directories such as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or $TMPDIR.
Tests were added to verify behavior in the following cases:
- Emacs service with socket activation disabled
- Emacs 26 with socket activation enabled
- Emacs 27 with socket activation enabled
PR #1314
