emacs/init.el

;;; init.el --- basic initial declarations
;;; Commentary:
;;  _         _  _            _
;; (_) _ __  (_)| |_     ___ | |
;; | || '_ \ | || __|   / _ \| |
;; | || | | || || |_  _|  __/| |
;; |_||_| |_||_| \__|(_)\___||_|
;;
;; '((above text graphic generated with command `figlet -k "init.el"'))

;;; Code:
;; Speed up loading/finding files
(let
    (
     ;; (file-name-handler-alist nil) ;; no. Breaks evil for some reason.
     )

  ;; Load the files that I put my settings in...
  (defvar mitch-directory
    (directory-file-name
     (concat user-emacs-directory
	     (convert-standard-filename "lisp/"))))
  (add-to-list 'load-path mitch-directory t)
  (setq custom-theme-directory mitch-directory)

  (require 'mitch-defuns)

  ;; minify yes/no prompts
  ;; (if (>= (string-to-number emacs-version) 28)
  ;;     (defvar use-short-answers t)) ;; doesn't work
  (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/radian-software/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)

  ;; actually, use elpaca instead
  ;; (require 'elpaca-bootstrap) (elpaca 'use-package (require 'use-package))
  ;; actually, don't because it's broken on Windows

  (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 originally from https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/early-init.el, but it's not in there anymore)
  (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")
  ;; DISABLED because something broke and I didn't bother figuring out what...

  ;; Don't barf out emacs errors as they are encountered
  (setq debug-on-error nil)

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

  ;; Display "labmda" as λ
  (global-prettify-symbols-mode 1)

  )

;; lower gc threshold again
(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 1000 1000))
;; (add-function :before #'after-focus-change-function #'garbage-collect)

;; Smallen buffer if windows
(if (equal (window-system) 'w32)
    (text-scale-decrease 2))

;;; init.el ends here