by procrastinatus on 10/1/09, 10:15 PM with 52 comments
by yummyfajitas on 10/2/09, 12:19 AM
The basic init.el file loads my various language modes, and some other minor modes (e.g., tempbuf-mode). It also loads a bunch of files from the "emacs.d/my_lisp" directory which contains various overrides and new functionality attached to existing modes (e.g., icicles customization, assorted one-off functions I want to add to modes). Lastly, it loads a bunch more files from my emacs.d/lisp directory which implement custom functionality.
For example, the current emacs M-x eshell doesn't behave the way I like. I often want multiple shells, so I've build a "ring of shells" functionality: f6 cycles through the ring of shells, C-f6 creates new shell window in the ring. I did something similar with window configurations.
Also, the emacs.d stores all modes which I use regularly. So when I migrate to a new computer, all I need to do is
darcs get me@oldbox:emacs.d
by mark_h on 10/2/09, 12:47 AM
Lots of cruft (roughly 10 years worth), although I did recently start to refactor.
Most notable: it's fairly portable and relocatable, thanks to a snippet I cooked up (probably not original, but I haven't seen it else-where): http://everythingtastesbetterwithchilli.com/initialisation-f... (check it out anywhere and just symlink init.el to ~/.emacs, it figures out all paths from there. It'll also load platform-specific code, if you need that).
I try and make it lazier by combining autoload and eval-after-load, which helps with startup time.
On an organisational point (still work to be done here!), init.el mostly just loads a bunch of other files, which are roughly grouped by task or mode. Github has been a huge boon, combined with submodules to track a lot of third-party extensions.
I don't change many key bindings (most notable is the Yegge-suggested C-w for backward-kill-word), but I do have a /lot/ of extensions installed. I'm a fairly heavy user, although almost exclusively as an editor (+ lisp or python interaction, etc) -- I don't use it as a mail client, browser, or anything along those lines. The furthest away I get is the occasional twitter or IRC usage.
While I'm rambling: I'd like to make all my key-binding specifications consistent. Currently I have a mix of string specifications, vectors, kbd macros, etc. Does anyone know what the canonical approach is these days? Extra reference: http://www.nongnu.org/emacs-tiny-tools/keybindings/ and http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyBindingNotation
by mahmud on 10/2/09, 2:02 AM
For uninitiated, C-w is "yank text", i.e. cut it, and Firefox it is "close current tab without warning".
by jmhodges on 10/2/09, 7:58 AM
Clone that as your emacs.d, add a .el file named the same as your logged in user, and add your specific preferences there. (I like to have it include stuff in a jmhodges directory in emacs.d, of course.)
On that note, my own fork of it with very minor personal changes: https://github.com/jmhodges/emacs-starter-kit
by scottw on 10/2/09, 12:52 AM
;; how emacs behaves generally
(setq scroll-step 1)
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)
(setq search-highlight t)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
;; some niceties on the status bar
(display-time)
(setq column-number-mode t)
(setq line-number-mode t)
;; other shortcuts
(global-set-key "\C-^" 'enlarge-window)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-w" 'compare-windows)
;; fix broken backspace
(global-set-key "\b" 'backward-delete-char)
(global-set-key "\C-xt" 'term)
;; UTF-8 goodness
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
;; I'm into Perl, but prefer cperl-mode over the default
(defun modify-alist (alist-symbol key value &optional search-cdr)
(let ((alist (symbol-value alist-symbol)))
(while alist
(if (eq (if search-cdr
(cdr (car alist))
(car (car alist))) key)
(setcdr (car alist) value)
(setq alist (cdr alist))))))
(modify-alist 'interpreter-mode-alist 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode t)
(modify-alist 'auto-mode-alist 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode t)
;; the one true indentation level
(setq cperl-indent-level 4)by al3x on 10/2/09, 12:24 AM
by lacker on 10/1/09, 11:11 PM
;; Don't mix tabs and spaces
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
;; Use "newline-and-indent" when you hit the Enter key so
;; you don't need to keep using TAB to align each line.
(global-set-key "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
;; Get rid of the <2> with duplicate file names
(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'post-forward-angle-brackets)
by radu_floricica on 10/2/09, 9:15 AM
;; Switch buffer
(global-set-key [f5] 'buffer-menu)
;; Save and load
(global-set-key [f2] 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key [f3] 'find-file)
;; Compile file
(global-set-key [f9] 'slime-compile-and-load-file)
;; Goto line
(global-set-key "\M-l" 'goto-line)
;; Go to other window
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-tab>") 'other-window)
;; And probably the most useful one, numpad Enter for eval line:
(global-set-key (kbd "<kp-enter>") 'slime-eval-last-expression)
by justinhj on 10/2/09, 4:03 AM
(setq transient-mark-mode t) ; visually show region
(setq line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers
(setq global-font-lock-mode 1) ; everything should use font
(windmove-default-keybindings) ; shift-arrow key moves to window in that direction
I set up `webjump' to search online API documentation
http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/05/emacs-searchin...
I like to send gmail
http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/02/sending-mail-w...
I think this is the most important one
(setq visible-bell t) ; annoying beeps off
by justinweiss on 10/2/09, 2:41 PM
(defun my-git-root ()
(if buffer-file-name
(let* ((current-directory (file-name-directory buffer-file-name))
(git-directory (concat current-directory ".git")))
(while (and
current-directory
(not (file-exists-p git-directory)))
(setq current-directory (file-name-directory (substring current-directory 0 -1)))
(setq git-directory (concat current-directory ".git")))
current-directory)))
(defun sudo-find-file (file-name)
(interactive "FFind file (sudo): ")
(find-file (concat "/sudo::" file-name)))
(defun go-to-doc (base-url)
(let ((default (symbol-name (symbol-at-point))))
(browse-url (concat base-url (read-string "Search term: " nil nil default)))))
(defun rails-doc ()
(interactive)
(go-to-doc "http://apidock.com/rails/search?query="))
(defun ruby-doc ()
(interactive)
(go-to-doc "http://apidock.com/ruby/search?query="))
(when
(load
(expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el"))
(package-initialize))
(server-start)by dirtyaura on 10/2/09, 12:40 PM
Now, I used to work for Google and most people there let you see their own home directories and I used that as an opportunity to learn from Stevey's setup.
There are a lot of customization going on and I should do a separate blog post about the setup. Here are I just cherry-picked some recent configuration favorites of mine:
;;
;; Superb way to move between Emacs windows
;; Shift+arrow keys
(windmove-default-keybindings)
;; Resize emacs according to the display resoluton
(defun set-frame-size-according-to-resolution ()
(interactive)
(if window-system
(progn
(if (> (x-display-pixel-width) 1900)
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'width 260))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'width 80)))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
(cons 'height (/ (- (x-display-pixel-height) 50) (frame-char-height))))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
(cons 'top 10))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
(cons 'left 5)))))by j_baker on 10/2/09, 11:52 AM
And then I have this in my .emacs:
(require 'anything-config)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-a" 'anything)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-e" 'anything-for-files)
by aiiie on 10/2/09, 12:08 AM
http://bitbucket.org/[redacted]/dotfiles/src/tip/.emacs.d/pl...
Probably my favorite bit of the config is that it uses flymake to run Pyflakes on my Python code as I'm writing it. I also have a little plugin that shows the error in the minibuffer area when the point is over the offending line.
It also disables backup/autosave file littering by using a locked down directory in /tmp.
As far as bindings go, I wrote delete-backward-indent for python-mode which deletes a level of indentation instead of just one space. There's also newline-maybe-indent that doesn't indent if the previous line has no indentation.
Everything else is pretty straightforward customization, I think. flyspell-prog-mode is another thing worth mentioning: it highlights spelling errors, but only in strings and comments.
by mikedouglas on 10/2/09, 12:35 AM
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
(lambda ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("\\<\\(FIXME\\|TODO\\|BUG\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t)))))by diiq on 10/2/09, 3:24 AM
by diN0bot on 10/2/09, 2:14 PM
(setq load-path (append load-path (list "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d")))
rebindings are useful, such ctrl-q for M-x goto-line: (global-set-key "\C-q" 'goto-line)
I cribbed the following from someone else, but i find it most awesome:
; ===== Put auto-save, backup files in one place ===
;; Put autosave files (ie #foo#) in one place, not ;; scattered all over the file system! (defvar autosave-dir (concat "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/"))
(make-directory autosave-dir t)
(defun auto-save-file-name-p (filename) (string-match "^#.*#$" (file-name-nondirectory filename)))
(defun make-auto-save-file-name () (concat autosave-dir (if buffer-file-name (concat "#" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name) "#") (expand-file-name (concat "#%" (buffer-name) "#")))))
;; Put backup files (ie foo~) in one place too. (The backup-directory-alist ;; list contains regexp=>directory mappings; filenames matching a regexp are ;; backed up in the corresponding directory. Emacs will mkdir it if necessary.) (defvar backup-dir (concat "/Users/diN0bot/.emacs.d/backup-file-list/")) (setq backup-directory-alist (list (cons "." backup-dir)))
by kirubakaran on 10/2/09, 12:51 AM
by coffeemug on 10/2/09, 2:57 AM
by Ben65 on 10/2/09, 11:21 AM
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
by elq on 10/2/09, 12:49 AM
by grandalf on 10/1/09, 11:10 PM
by bmac on 10/2/09, 12:43 AM
most useful parts: replacing fundamental mode with text-mode as the default mode when a new buffer is open.
(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
turn auto fill (automatic line wraping) and flyspell (spellchecking) on by default
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)
also I find yasnippet http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ wonderful for coding html mockups and django templates.
my github repo if anyone cares to take a peek: http://github.com/bmac/emacs
by johngunderman on 10/1/09, 10:43 PM
Mine's pretty minimal at the moment, but it does the job.
by jws on 10/1/09, 11:41 PM
delete-delete-delete save-buffer Much better.
by apgwoz on 10/2/09, 10:35 AM
(require 'activator) (activator-start)
Which then looks at all of the stuff here: http://github.com/apgwoz/emacs-config
by bkudria on 10/2/09, 7:02 PM
by larrywright on 10/2/09, 3:23 AM
by jonshea on 10/2/09, 2:34 PM
by vaporstun on 10/2/09, 2:33 PM
The default undo history is only 32. I like to be able to go further back.
by leif on 10/2/09, 8:44 AM
by twism on 10/2/09, 1:07 PM
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode t)by gibsonf1 on 10/2/09, 3:14 AM
(defun init-streamfocus () (interactive)
;; Slime is for starting or connecting to SBCL ;; To start: C-x slime RET (add-to-list 'load-path "c:/Otech/sf/lib/slime")
;;(setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/Otech/programs/sbcl-1.0.9/sbcl")
;(setq inferior-lisp-program "C:/Program Files/LispWorks/lispworks-4450");;;For SBCL on Windows ;(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") ;(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/Steel Bank Common Lisp/1.0.22/sbcl.exe")
;;For Allegro on Windows (setq inferior-lisp-program "allegro") (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/acl81/allegro.exe")
(require 'slime) (slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-banner))
;;allegro (global-set-key "\C-cs" 'slime-selector) (setq slime-complete-symbol-fancy t) (setq slime-complete-symbol-function 'slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol)
(setq slime-multiprocessing t) ;; choose one of the below based on Express or non-Express usage ;(setq slime-lisp* "alisp.exe") (setq slime-lisp "allegro.exe")
;;(setq *slime-lisp* "allegro-express.exe")
(setq *slime-port* 4005)
(global-set-key
[(f5)]
'(lambda ()
(interactive)
(shell-command
(format "%s +B +cm -L c:/.slime.lisp -- -p %s --ef %s &"
*slime-lisp* *slime-port*
slime-net-coding-system))
(delete-other-windows)
(while (not (ignore-errors (slime-connect "localhost" *slime-port*)))
(sleep-for 0.2))))
(let* ((cygwin-root "c:/cygwin")
(cygwin-bin (concat cygwin-root "/bin")))
;(setenv "HOME" (concat cygwin-root "/home/frederick"))
(setenv "PATH" (concat cygwin-bin ";" (getenv "PATH")))
(setq exec-path (cons cygwin-bin exec-path)))
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash")
(push ".fasl" completion-ignored-extensions)
(push ".git" completion-ignored-extensions)
;;-------------------------------------- (defun slime-connect-to-host (path port)
(setq *current-tramp-path* path)
(setq slime-translate-from-lisp-filename-function
(lambda (f)
(if *current-tramp-path*
(concat *current-tramp-path* f)
f)))
(setq slime-translate-to-lisp-filename-function
(lambda (f)
(if *current-tramp-path*
(substring f (length *current-tramp-path*))
f)))
(slime-connect "localhost" port))
(defun cayenne-slime ()
(interactive)
(slime-connect-to-host *cayenne-path* 4006))
(defun cayenne-find-file ()
(interactive)
(find-file (concat *cayenne-path* "/home/streamfocus/sf/")))
;; http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NTEmacsWithCygwin
(let* ((cygwin-root "c:/cygwin")
(cygwin-bin (concat cygwin-root "/bin")))
;(setenv "HOME" (concat cygwin-root "/home/fred"))
(setenv "PATH" (concat cygwin-bin ";" (getenv "PATH")))
(setq exec-path (cons cygwin-bin exec-path)))
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash")
)
;; swank-clojure
(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Otech/programs/clojure/swank-clojure")
(require 'swank-clojure-autoload)
;(swank-clojure-config
(setq swank-clojure-jar-path "C:/Otech/programs/clojure/clojure/clojure.jar")
(setq swank-clojure-extra-classpaths
(list "C:/Otech/programs/clojure/clojure-contrib/clojure-contrib.jar"))
;)
;; slime
(eval-after-load "slime"
'(progn (slime-setup '(slime-repl))))
(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Otech/programs/clojure/slime")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup) ;;;type alt-x and slime to start repl
)