Wakatime layer

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1. Description
- 1.1. Features:
2. Install

1. Description

This layer adds support for Wakatime.

WakaTime was built to solve time tracking for programmers. Since we work inside a text editor, why should we have to start and stop a timer? WakaTime uses open-source text editor plugins to automatically track the time you spend programming so you never have to manually track it again!

P.S. wakati means time in Swahili

1.1. Features:

Integration with Wakatime cloud based time tracking service

2. Install

2.1. Wakatime Program

You can follow wakatime installation instructions here https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-mode.

In short it's just:

pip install wakatime

And for some linux users

sudo pip install wakatime

2.2. Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add wakatime to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Example:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
              '(
                ;; ...
                (wakatime :variables
                wakatime-api-key  "your-api-key"
                ;; use the actual wakatime path
                wakatime-cli-path "/usr/bin/wakatime")
                ;; ...
               ))

2.2.1. Note about api key and bug submission

If you use the built-in Spacemacs bug submission tool it will include all of your layer configs including your secret api key. Please remove it before submitting.

Even better don't store your key directly in the layer config. Instead put the following code in your user-config which is set after your layer config:

(setq wakatime-api-key "your-api-key")

Everything you set there won't appear in the bug submitting tool.

2.3. API Keys

After this go to your wakatime account and have your API key handy https://wakatime.com/settings/account?apikey=true.

Restart emacs and it will prompt you for the location of the wakatime installer (just put in whatever which wakatime gives you in the terminal e.g. /usr/bin/wakatime for example) and that's it.

2.3.1. Note to `venv-workon` users:

Right now wakatime uses python as python bin executable, so if you use venv-workon because you have python projects which need to have a virtual env., then wakatime, which is installed system-wide will have trouble locating wakatime files, so it's best to define by yourself the python path where wakatime can always find it's stuff, via this variable:

(setq wakatime-python-bin "/path/to/python")

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