My emacs settings

An ever-changing set of emacs settings. Micro-optimizations are super fun. These are used in the Emacs Rocks screencasts.

Setup

To grab all the dependencies, either:

git clone git://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d.git
cd .emacs.d
git submodule init
git submodule update

or on git v1.6.5 or later:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d.git

I don't keep magit in my .emacs.d. To install magit, check install-instructions here.

I use Cocoa Emacs, installed like this:

brew install emacs --cocoa --use-git-head --HEAD

If you want to use my settings straight out of the box, here are some things to note:

The key bindings are optimized for a norwegian keyboard layout.
Start by reading up on all the cool stuff in key-bindings.el.
You quit emacs with C-x r q, mnemonic Really Quit.
Find file in project with C-x o, in dir with C-x C-f, recent with C-x f
Add your user- and project-specific stuff in .emacs.d/users/[machine name]/*.el
C-h is rebound to backspace, like in the shell. Get help on F1 instead.
Autocomplete with C-.
expand-region is your friend. Find its bound key by doing F1 f er/expand-region
annoying-arrows suggests alternative ways of moving around if you use the arrow keys excessively.
Undo with C-_ and redo with M-_. Watch the undo-tree with C-x u
Easily add functions to the F-keys with M-: (f5 <sexps here>), example (f5 (flush-lines "console.log"))
Quickly jump anywhere in the buffer by pressing fn plus the starting letter of a word.
Indent and clean up white space in the entire buffer with C-c n
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