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Author: MitchMarq42 <dr.m.perseos@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 20 08:26:34 2024 -0900

    add all files back. i broke this repo whoops

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+* Pitch:
+In essence, this Emacs mode simply loads the data from dconf into ini files,
+then applies them after each write to disk.  It further provides the variable
+=dconf--default-path= to allow more general or specific configuration, as
+needed.
+
+The main benefit of using something like this is that your GNOME (or whatever
+else) settings are no longer a nebulous binary hive; they are declarative
+human-readable text files.  They can be version-controlled and distributed
+alongside your other dotfiles.  They can be viewed in other editors and
+environments.  They can be =grep='d through.
+
+* Installlation:
+With straight.el and use-package:
+#+begin_src elisp
+(use-package dconf-mode
+  :straight
+  (:type git
+         :repo "https://git.mitchmarq42.xyz/mitch/dconf-mode.el"))
+#+end_src
+
+* Usage:
+I personally use this to manage my GNOME configuration like so:
+
+#+begin_example
+~/.config/gnome-custom-configs
+├── desktop.gsets
+├── settings-daemon.gsets
+├── shell.gsets
+└── terminal.gsets
+#+end_example
+
+Thus, editing `desktop.gsets' modifies the hive =/org/gnome/desktop/=.
+
+* TODO
+** have an option to use a temp buffer
+** test
+- working with nonexistent files
+- older/newer emacs versions
+  - lexical binding?
+
+* In other editors
+To achieve something similar in vim/nvim:
+#+begin_src vimscript
+autocmd BufReadPre *.gsets silent !dconf dump /org/gnome/%:t:r/ > %
+autocmd BufReadPost *.gsets set ft=dosini
+autocmd BufWritePost *.gsets silent !cat % | dconf load /org/gnome/%:t:r/
+#+end_src
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+;;; dconf-mode.el ---  Edit dconf settings in an emacs buffer
+
+;; Author: Mitchell Marquez <dr.m.perseos@gmail.com>
+;; URL: https://git.mitchmarq42.xyz/mitch/dconf-mode.el
+;; Version: 0.1
+;; Keywords: convenience
+
+;;; Copyright © 2022 Mitchell Marquez <dr.m.perseos@gmail.com>
+;;;
+;;;
+;;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.
+;;;
+;;; This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;;; (at your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; dconf-mode is a lightweight major mode for editing dconf databases such as
+;; the settings of the GNOME desktop environment from the comfort of Emacs, and
+;; saving its configuration in simple text files.
+
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defcustom dconf--default-path "/org/gnome/"
+  "The default path for dconf-mode to read and write from."
+  :group 'dconf-mode
+  :type 'string)
+
+(defun dconf-load-current-file ()
+  "Load the current file into dconf's live registry."
+  (interactive)
+  (shell-command
+   (concat "cat " buffer-file-name
+	   " | dconf load " dconf--default-path (file-name-base buffer-file-name) "/")))
+(defun dconf-dump-current-file ()
+  "Load dconf's live registry into the current file."
+  (interactive)
+  (erase-buffer)
+  (shell-command
+   (concat "dconf dump " dconf--default-path (file-name-base buffer-file-name) "/")
+   (current-buffer)))
+
+(defun dconf-edit (path)
+  "Open a dconf buffer to edit PATH."
+  (interactive "M")
+  (pop-to-buffer (get-buffer-create (format "*dconf %s*" path)))
+  (setq-local dconf-current-path path)
+  (dconf-mode))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(define-derived-mode dconf-mode conf-mode "Dconf"
+  "Major mode for interacting with the dconf database."
+  :group 'dconf-mode
+  ;; :after-hook (dconf-dump-current-file)
+  (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'dconf-load-current-file 0 t))
+
+;;;###autoload
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.gsets" . dconf-mode))
+
+(provide 'dconf-mode)
+;;; dconf-mode.el ends here