emacs.d

I needed to rewrite my init away from the monolithic .emacs file, of which this is an attempt.

I originally wanted to do an init.org version, but shied away when I realized most people prefer the monolithic approach. I also didn’t want to use org-babel-load-file which seems slow (plus I don’t really want to include / depend on org). I realize I could have written multiple org files so they are self documenting, but I think I didn’t want to deal with the minimal performance impact. Most of the time, I’ll have several emacs servers going. I don’t want to wait too long per new instance.

Organization

This is organized such that my init.el initiates and loads my lisp/ files. It then loads anything under site-lisp/, which are lisp files or packages that I installed manually. Further, files stored in unbp/ are those that I’m currently not using. Finally, pkgs-%d.%d is the directory that stores packages themselves.

If you notice, files have a four-digit integer prefix. This allows files to be loaded in the order I want. Read the README.org under the lisp/ directories for more information.

Setup

1. Clone

# TODO

1. Open Emacs

emacs &
# wait for emacs to get done installing packages etc

1. Restart Emacs and begin using

Irony

If you wish to use irony (code completion), install the following on your system:

Linux:

apt install libclang-dev global

After installation is complete, install the server and you’re done.

M-x irony-install-server

ERC

To store erc information, I use the erc/.ercauth.el file. It may contain things like:

(defun erc/join-ssl-libera ()
  "Join irc.libera.chat with my personal credentials"

  (interactive)
  (setq erc-autojoin-channels-alist
	'(("libera.chat" "#emacs")))

  (erc-tls :server "irc.libera.chat" :port 6697
	   :nick "MY_NICK" :password "MY_COOL_LONG_PASSWORD"))

(defun erc/join-libera ()
  "Join irc.libera.chat with my personal credentials"

  (interactive)
  (erc :server "irc.libera.chat" :port 6667
	   :nick "MY_NICK" :password "MY_COOL_LONG_PASSWORD"))

This file may contain several defun’s for various servers etc.