How to setup a config to load on both windows and linux
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timmymayes · 2022-12-13 19:20

I have a config (literate via org-babel) that I'm pretty happy with. I
did a very manual setup on my work pc which uses windows (i'm not a
dev yet so stuck with windows at my current marketing job).

The problem is as I make new strides on my home config I cannot easily
mirror the setup at work. On top of that I am also working on going
all-in on org mode across my devices. I can figure out the org file
syncing with syncthing no problem but as I develop my org setup I
don't want to be having disparate versions of my config.

Are there any guides or walkthroughs on this type of thing? I know
I"ll probably need to figure several things out based on my specific
setup but figure there might be something out there like resolving
moving between the \~/ and C:/ locations and any other issues I might
not realize I'd run into.

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MitchellMarquez42 · 2022-12-13 20:07

In general using `user-emacs-directory` instead of hardcoding paths
will help. Also setting up hooks to re-tangle your config when it
syncs.

In the future I also recommend learning some basic powershell to
access windows APIs - it can do anything c# can do, and is
surprisingly lispy for something that looks like perl. The emacs
package `powershell` has good syntax highlighting and there's an LSP
server available.

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Motor_Mouth_ · 2022-12-13 20:09

So the idea is to have config specific to a particular OS inside an
if:

`(if (eq system-type 'darwin)`
  `; something for OS X if true`
`)`

See this for details

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1817257/how-to-determine-
operating-system-in-
elisp](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1817257/how-to-determine-
operating-system-in-elisp)

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timmymayes · 2022-12-13 20:36

Thanks for the tip!

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timmymayes · 2022-12-13 20:37

This makes sense. I'll give it a read.