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Emacs Configuration

Emacs Configuration

Oh boy.

I don't even know what to say about this. I want to believe in the vim cult, but emacs just has me under its thrall. It's precisely what I've been looking for this whole time.

early-init.el

A pointless header

  ;;; Early-init --- do all these things early in the init process

  ;;; Commentary:
  ;; do the first initial beginning things

  ;;; Code:

Redefine the startup message

  (defun display-startup-echo-area-message ()
    "A re-definition of the function.
  Tell the Emacs startup time and number of garbage-collections
  instead of the banal
  \"For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type \\[about-emacs].\""
    (message
     (concat (emacs-init-time) ", gc ran " (number-to-string gcs-done) " times"
             )))

Redefine the Scratch blurb

  (setq initial-scratch-message (purecopy "\
  ;; Write some lisp in this buffer and it can be executed, either with
  ;; \\[eval-last-sexp] locally or \\[eval-buffer] globally.

  "))

Un-hinge the garbage collector

  ;; Crash the computer by overloading memory
  (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 50 1000 1000))

Vanilla is not plain. Pour on the bleach.

  ;; Disable package.el so we can use straight
  (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

just give me my file buffer, please

  ;; Hide default dashboard
  (defvar inhibit-startup-messages t)
  (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

Compilers are verbose, but we need not listen

  ;; Don't pop up error window on native-comp emacs
  (defvar native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors 'silent)

BROKEN: frame hooks. Present later in init.

  ;; Run stuff after opening a new frame
  ;; (setq server-after-make-frame-hook (mitch/graphical-setup))
  ;; (setq before-make-frame-hook (mitch/graphical-setup))
  ;;; early-init.el ends here

init.el

Cool figlet text

This file used to get checked by flycheck so that's perhaps worthy of note…

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

Wrap it all in a Let

This is said to speed up loading files because it doesn't search on network locations, which have always been broken for me.

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

TODO make it indent correctly

BROKEN: explicit shell name

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

Add my personal files to the load-path

  ;; 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)

… and load them

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

Minify yes/no prompts

  ;; 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)

When GUI, do GUI things

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

Hide backup, swap, and lock files

  ;; 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)

Put Custom declarations in their own (ignored) file

  ;; 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)

Invoke/load straight.el, the gud git package manager

  ;; 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)

And load my packages

  (require 'mitch-packages)

Line numbers

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

Scrolling up and down is weird

  ;; 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)

BROKEN: run launcher for linux apps

  ;; run launcher exists. Copy it from
  ;; https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/s7p7pr/so_which_run_launcher_do_you_use_rofi_or_dmenu/
  ;; I don't have it here because I don't use it right now.

UTF-8 is love, UTF-8 is life

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

BROKEN: Japanese input

you can still use it: C-u C-\ japanese RET

  ;; 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...

Inspect Element popup, but 40 years old

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

Pointless scrolling hack

TODO should go in /mir/emacs/src/commit/502ea5a08fbe1bce9fc567ff09289dfb197ed26b/Scrolling%20up%20and%20down%20is%20weird

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

Save our place in files, to jump right back into it

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

an excuse to write lambda as λ

  ;; 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)

Close the 'Let'

  )

Re-hinge the garbage collector

see early-init.el

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

  ;;; init.el ends here