dotfiles/modules/interface.org

#+TITLE: Interface
#+AUTHOR: Christopher James Hayward
#+EMAIL: chris@chrishayward.xyz

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*Bring Emacs out of the eighties*

* Completion

There's a lot of occasions Emacs asks to input text to match a file name in a directory, just one example of an oppertunity for a completion system. *Swiper*[fn:1] is a family of packages that work towards this common goal in Emacs.

** Selection menu

*Ivy*[fn:1] is a powerful selection menu for Emacs.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package ivy
  :diminish
  :config (ivy-mode 1))
#+end_src

** Replace built in commands

*Counsel*[fn:1] is a customized set of commands to replace built in completion buffers.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package counsel
  :after ivy
  :custom (counsel-linux-app-format-function #'counsel-linux-app-format-function-name-only)
  :config (counsel-mode 1))
#+end_src 

** Additional details

Provide more information about each item in the completion menu with *Ivy rich*[fn:2].

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package ivy-rich
  :after counsel
  :init (ivy-rich-mode 1))
#+end_src

* Fonts

Write out to all of Emacs' available font faces with the unified font defined in the options.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font dotfiles/font :height dotfiles/font-size)
(set-face-attribute 'fixed-pitch nil :font dotfiles/font :height dotfiles/font-size)
(set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :font dotfiles/font :height dotfiles/font-size)
#+end_src

** Text scaling

Define a transient keybinding for Scaling the text.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defhydra hydra-text-scale (:timeout 4)
  "Scale"
  ("j" text-scale-increase "Increase")
  ("k" text-scale-decrease "Decrease")
  ("f" nil "Finished" :exit t))
#+end_src

+ Scale the text inside of buffers with =SPC t f=
  * Increase =j=
  * Decrease =k=
  * Finished =f=

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(dotfiles/leader
  "tf" '(hydra-text-scale/body :which-key "Font"))
#+end_src

* Icons

- [ ] All the icons
- [ ] All the icons dired

* Themes

* Line numbering

* Pretty symbols

* Ligatures

* Dashboard

* Resources

[fn:1] https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
[fn:2] https://github.com/Yevgnen/ivy-rich