I just had an issue in which I changed the repo of a package I had been using (use-package), to a fork of that package. Making that change in Straight proved that either there needs to be an easy way, or I need to know the easy way. Due to conflicting recipes I ended up changing the use-package statement (expected), editing the straight cache file (ugh), manually deleting folders in /repos and /builds, and restarting emacs.

What ghosts/anomalies do you encounter in the Chtulhu Mansion that is your emacs setup? Emacs is the closest thing now existing to the vaunted “lisp machines” that were originally prescribed to make lisp run effectively. This seems all the more true of exwm users like myself, who are taking the proposition of “emacs as operating system” somewhat literally (at least, to those who don’t consider the difference between a window manager and an operating system.

My ordinary workflow was to start emacs with a load into my orgmode agenda, which locates me in my .emacs git-project. Upon inspecting my agenda I’ll go to some project from my todo list using helm-projectile. However, after switching to Staight.el (which does its heavy lifting with git) this workflow was broken. The result is that, when I try to use projectile from somewhere that Git includes Straight stuff, I get this failure about submodules: