Share links to Emacs initialization files with minimal effort!
I love reading all kinds of Emacs configuration files ranging for super refined to just starting out. For example caisah has a list of loads of stellar examples. However the only way to get added to that list is for your configuration to be notable. That is a pretty high bar for people just starting out. New people also usually have the freshest ideas though and they challenge the status quo of what we currently consider “the best”. All of those perspectives are valuable so I wanted to create a simple list that can include all of them.
The only requirement for adding a link here is that you or someone else values it. A lot or a little no matter how much—someone just needs to have found it valuable. No shyness or self-consciousness allowed: absolutely add your own! 😄
Emacs is about sharing and learning and that includes the entire spectrum of code out there. Happy Hacking!
- Steps
- Identify Emacs initialization files that either you or someone else found valuable in some way no matter how large or small.
- Find a link where to get the configuration. That would be a link to the Git project containing it, the file itself, or a blog post. It is at your discretion.
- Add that link here.
The links are stored as headlines—that way you can store as little or as much information as you like in whatever way that you want. Add notes, comments, attribution, and any other classifications of anything. You can apply Org tags, properties, etc. here. Utilize everything that Org has to offer. Think of their headline as the most important note to leave for the future reader, and that includes unforeseen ways that they might want to use the metadata too!
Aaron Bedra’s Emacs 26 Configuration
HELP Enables Literate Programming
HELP is the culmination of everything that I’ve learned about literate programming (LP) in Org-Mode—written with the intent to share it with others in total and complete respect and consideration of you and the value of your time. No platitude here: time is precious.
With that in mind here is a breakdown of the sections you might be interested in (and should ignore):
Here are the files that compose HELP in order of load dependency, the next one always load the previous one. The first two configuration files are the most reusable “out of box” parts of HELP:
- Org-Mode Exemple Complet Minimal → .org-mode-ecm.emacs.el
- Proper etiquette before posting questions to the mailing list is to start Org with nothing else loaded to debug your issue—this is that configuration. It helps you create the Org ECM: Exemple Complet Minimal
- Helper function to dump all of the information you need to include in the ECM
- By necessity all of the essential Emacs configuration, though not much, is in there too and definitely worth taking a look at
- Org-Mode Fundamentals → .org-mode-fundamentals.emacs.el
- Org-Mode configuration great for the style of LP described by the table here
- Individual headlines are good for reference and copy and paste too
- Package-Management.org → .org-mode-package-management.emacs.el
- Package management configuration stuff
- Safe to ignore
- Contribute.org → .org-mode-contribute.emacs.el
- Loads packages that for some reason I make changes
- Safe to ignore
- help.org → .emacs.el
- The section to skim and find parts to copy and paste
- All of my very personal preferences.
- Intent driven headlines that are personal favorites and maybe useful to you
- LP Style Guide
- Writing style guard-rails
- History
- Most of the time you see initialization files that are the result of years of continuous refinement and improvement—you never see the complete messes! The fun story about my config include the mistakes, confusion, and completely dropping Emacs! It is really fond memories for me, too.
- Typography
- How to really configure
fill-column(for those who cannot remember)
- How to really configure
- Refiling
- Strategy for moving headlines between files
- Common Configurations
- Use mode inheritance to simplify configuration
- Literate Programming
- Every custom configuration of every mode
- LP Style Guide
- The section to skim and find parts to copy and paste
Sacha Chua’s Emacs configuration
My emacs settings This setup includes multiple files from the .emacs and is designed to just work for many versions of Emacs (v23 to current).
UncleDavesEmacs Exwm and other good stuff
My working .emacs.d Using emacs as a desktop environment and PHP ide. I am in the process of redoing the init.el to be done in orgmode and be cleaner, on branch init-cleanup and documenting the process on YouTube.