chris
/
dotfiles
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity
I showed you my source code, pls respond
You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
498 Commits
1 Branch
0 Tags
34 MiB
 
 
 
Tree: fb79d526b0
Branches Tags
${ item.name }
Create tag ${ searchTerm }
Create branch ${ searchTerm }
from 'fb79d526b0'
${ noResults }
dotfiles/modules/core.org

5.0 KiB
Raw Blame History

Core

Minimal configuration to make Emacs usable for my own personal workflow. This does little in the ways of improving the visuals, only removing what's included by default and not required. Read more about my technique in my post Immutable Emacs1.

  • Packages are managed with straight.el2

  • Packages are installed with use-package3

Babel

Organize your plain life in plain text

Org mode4 is one of the hallmark features of Emacs, and provides the basis for my Literate Programming5 platform. It's essentially a markdown language with rich features for project management, scheduling, development, and writing. It's hard to convey everything within its capabilities.

  • Force straight.el2 to ignore the local version of Org4

(straight-use-package '(org :local-repo nil))

  • Setup shell and emacs-lisp as Babel Languages6

  • Configure Structure Templates7 for both languages

(use-package org
  :hook (org-mode . (lambda ()
          (org-indent-mode)
          (visual-line-mode 1)
          (variable-pitch-mode 1)))
  :custom (org-ellipsis " ▾")
          (org-log-done 'time)
          (org-log-into-drawer t)
          (org-return-follows-link t)
          (org-image-actual-width nil)
          (org-directory dotfiles/home)
          (org-src-fontify-natively t)
          (org-src-tab-acts-natively t)
          (org-src-preserve-indentation t)
          (org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
          (org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "START" "WAIT" "DONE")))
  :config (require 'org-tempo)
          (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("s" . "src"))
          (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("q" . "quote"))
          (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("e" . "example"))
          (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("sh" . "src shell"))
          (add-to-list 'org-structure-template-alist '("el" . "src emacs-lisp"))
          (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((shell . t)
                                                                   (emacs-lisp . t))))

Cleanup

Despite having our stateful and immutable configurations seperate, it's good practice to make efforts to reduce the trash created by Emacs. Install no-littering3 to reduce the files created by Emacs.

(use-package no-littering)

Now that we've taken care of how it acts, we can work on how it looks. Emacs' default user interface is horrendous, let's do something about that.

(setq inhibit-startup-message t
      initial-scratch-message "")

(global-prettify-symbols-mode)

(when (fboundp 'tooltip-mode)
  (tooltip-mode -1))
(when (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode)
  (tool-bar-mode -1))
(when (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode)
  (menu-bar-mode -1))
(when (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode)
  (scroll-bar-mode -1))

Methods

Define some helper methods to use throughout the configuration.

Tangle directory

Build all of the Org4 files within a given directory, recursively.

(defun dotfiles/tangle (dir)
  "Recursively tangle the Org files within a directory."
  (let ((org-files (directory-files-recursively dir "org")))
    (dolist (f org-files)
      (org-babel-tangle-file f))))

Force symbolic links

Function that takes in a system and configuration file path, checks to see if the system file doesn't exist, or doesn't point to the configuration file, deleting it for the latter, then creating a symbolic link to the configuration file in place.

(defun dotfiles/symlink (src tgt)
  "Forces a symlink from `src' to `tgt'."
  (let ((sys-file (expand-file-name tgt))
        (dot-file (expand-file-name src)))
    (when (or (not (file-exists-p sys-file))
              (not (equal (file-symlink-p sys-file) dot-file)))
      (delete-file sys-file)
      (make-symbolic-link dot-file sys-file))))

Performance

Emacs has a long history of running on machines without gigabytes of available memory, let it realize its full potential by increasing the garbage collection threshold and the minimum prime bit size.

(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum
      gnutls-min-prime-bits 4096)

Resources