emacs/init.el

;;; init.el --- basic initial declarations
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;; '((above text graphic generated with command `figlet -k "init.el"'))

;;; Code:
;; Speed up loading/finding files
(let
    ((file-name-handler-alist nil))

  ;; Don't set this, fix the actual issue and use a POSIX-ish shell (or CMD):
  ;; (setq shell-file-name "/bin/sh")

  ;; Load the files that I put my settings in...
  (defvar mitch-directory
    (directory-file-name
     (concat user-emacs-directory
	     (convert-standard-filename "lisp/"))))
  (setq load-path
	(cons mitch-directory load-path))
  (setq custom-theme-directory mitch-directory)

  (require 'mitch-defuns)
  ;; (require 'webkit) ; see https://github.com/akirakyle/emacs-webkit
  (require 'man-plus)

  ;; minify yes/no prompts
  ;; (if (>= (string-to-number emacs-version) 28)
  ;;     (defvar use-short-answers t))
  (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

  ;; do the things
  (add-hook 'server-after-make-frame-hook #'mitch/graphical-setup)
  (if (display-graphic-p) (mitch/graphical-setup))

  ;; Control backups/swapfiles
  (defvar backup-directory
    (expand-file-name "emacs-backups"
		      (or (getenv "XDG_CACHE_HOME")
			  (expand-file-name
			   ".cache" "~"))))
  (if (not (file-exists-p backup-directory))
      (make-directory backup-directory t))
  (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,backup-directory)))
  ;; auto-save-mode doesn't create the path automatically!
  (defvar auto-save-directory
    (expand-file-name "tmp/auto-saves/" backup-directory))
  (make-directory auto-save-directory t)
  (setq auto-save-list-file-prefix
	(expand-file-name "sessions/" auto-save-directory)
	auto-save-file-name-transforms
	`((".*" ,auto-save-directory t)))
  (setq create-lockfiles nil)

  ;; remove auto-generated bits
  (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" backup-directory))
  (if (not (file-exists-p custom-file))
      (make-empty-file custom-file t))
  (load custom-file)

  ;; straight.el: the better package manager?
  ;; minified bootstrap (split lines if you want) (or not)
  (defvar bootstrap-version) (let ((bootstrap-file (expand-file-name "straight/repos/straight.el/bootstrap.el" user-emacs-directory)) (bootstrap-version 5)) (unless (file-exists-p bootstrap-file) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raxod502/straight.el/develop/install.el" 'silent 'inhibit-cookies) (goto-char (point-max)) (eval-print-last-sexp))) (load bootstrap-file nil 'nomessage)) (straight-use-package 'use-package) (setq straight-use-package-by-default t)

  (require 'mitch-packages)

  ;; Absolute line numbers. Relative ones are an annoyance to set up, sadly.
  ;; (global-display-line-numbers-mode)
  ;; (defvar display-line-numbers-width-start t)


  ;; scroll step stuff
  (setq scroll-margin 2
	scroll-conservatively 100
	scroll-up-aggressively 0.01
	scroll-down-aggressively 0.01)
  (global-visual-line-mode t)

  ;; UTF-8 supremacy (Snippet from https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/early-init.el)
  (set-language-environment "UTF-8")

  ;; Toggle Japanese with `qq'
  ;; Sample text: 進撃 の 巨人
  ;; (shingeki no kyojin (attack on titan))
  ;; (setq default-input-method 'japanese)
  ;; (setq-default current-input-method 'japanese-ascii)
  ;; DISABLED because something broke and I didn't bother figuring out what...

  ;; barf out emacs errors as they are encountered
  (setq debug-on-error t)

  ;; Speed up scrolling down (why is this even a thing?)
  (setq auto-window-vscroll nil)

  ;; save place in all files
  (save-place-mode t)
  (defvar save-place-file
    (expand-file-name "file-position-save" backup-directory))

  ;; load eshell stuff when we start eshell
  (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook #'(lambda () (require 'eshell-settings)))
  ;; Display "labmda" as λ
  (global-prettify-symbols-mode 1)

  ;; ...and finally, sync files with disk changes
  (global-auto-revert-mode)
  (diminish 'auto-revert-mode)

  )

;; lower gc threshold again
(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 1000 1000))

;;; init.el ends here