/emacs-dashboard

A shameless extraction of Spacemac's startup screen

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

Emacs Dashboard

A shameless extraction of Spacemacs’ startup screen.

Features

  1. Displays an awesome Emacs banner!
  2. Recent files
  3. Bookmarks list
  4. Recent projectile projects list

Screenshot

./screenshot.png

Dependencies

You will need the following packages which are all available on Melpa:

  1. page-break-lines - https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines
  2. projectile - https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

Usage

This package is not yet available on Melpa, so until then:

git clone https://github.com/rakanalh/emacs-dashboard ~/.emacs.d/dashboard
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat user-emacs-directory "/dashboard/"))

;; And either one of:
(require 'dashboard)
(dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
;; - OR -
(use-package dashboard
  :config
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook))

Shortcuts

You can use any of the following shortcuts inside Dashboard

ShortcutFunction
Tab Or C-iNext Item
Shift-TabPrevious Item
Return / Mouse Click / C-mOpen
rRecent files
mBookmarks
pProjects

Wish List

  1. Center content
  2. Integrate Org-mode’s agenda
  3. Listing Perspectives
  4. More banner options
  5. Customizing the list of widgets to display

Contributions

Contributions are very welcome :)