Arsenic’s Emacs

The configuration is mostly inspired from David willson’s emacs from scratch series and Mingde (Matthew) Zeng’s M-Emacs, plus some extensions to make it fit for my personal workflow and C/C++ development needs.

most of the packages are set up using use-package declarations, and should make sure to download and install the packages before using it, so you don’t have to do it manually. This also means that it might take a lot of time the first time you try to set it up.

I personally use emacs-plus with support for native compilation and Xwidgets support enabled, the configuration should not break otherwise also so if it does, please report it via opening an issue.

Requirements

GNU Emacs (version >= 27) ( tested on GNU Emacs 29.0.60 )
(optional) FIra code font : you may change font to your preferred one ( see ./elisp/init-font.el )

Repository structure

emacs-config
├── elisp/
│   └── init-<package-name>.el
├── non-melpa-elisp/
│   └──  packages that are not installed from MELPA
└── init.el

Initialization for similar modes exist in their own ./elisp/init-<package-name>.el file which is then loaded by the main init.el
init.el only initializes the load path and then loads all the configurations from ./elisp/ directory using (require 'init-<package-name>)
All The packages download from elpa repositories ( MELPA or GNU-ELPA ) should exist in their default location ( generally ./elpa/ )
All the packages that are not available on ELPA repository but are used by this config exist in =./non-melpa-elisp/= directory

Screenshots

How to use it ?

clone/download
- Non MELPA packages are provided with the repository as git submodules, you may use --recurse-submodules to initialize and update those submodules at the time of pulling.
- MELPA packages are not provided and should be installed by (use-package) at the time of initial startup in the appropriate directory ( generally in elpa/ )
- Here is how the sequence of commands should look like
```
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Arsenic-ATG/Emacs-config.git
cd Emacs-config
        
```
load the init file:
Now you would want to use the provided init file (init.el) instead of using it’s own default init file which could be either ~/.emacs.el or another .init.el file, check this link for more information about how to locate your initialization file . This can be done in 2 ways
- Replace your default user directory (~/.emacs.d) with repository ( you might want to keep a backup of your old config if you go for this option).
- Prevent emacs to load your local init file and use this file instead ( using -q and -u switches )
read this official doc for more detailed info about the same.
Start your Emacs:
When launched for the first time, it might take more time than expected as on initial startup (use-package) will download and install all the packages ( so make sure to have stable connection to MELPA/GNU-ELPA package repositories )
(optional) Restart Emacs:
When all the packages are installed then you may restart the emacs to make sure (use-package) did it job correctly.

Doubts / Query

feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you face any issue during the installation or have any query regarding the configuration.

Suggestions for possible improvements ?

You are more than welcome to leave your suggestions via an Issue or a Pull Request, I would love to hear from you experts out there.

License

All code found in this repository is licensed under GPL v3.

Arsenic-ATG/Emacs-config