/dotemacs

My Emacs configuration

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

Preamble

An opinionated Emacs configuration based on [el-get], [Prelude], [Emacs Rocks] and some personal flavor

This configuration is only compatible with GNU Emacs 24.x (24.3 recommended).

Quick Install

Clone the repository and link it to the .emacs.d folder.

$ ln -s $REPO ~/.emacs.d

Concept

The biggest challenge with Emacs configuration is code organization. [Prelude] has made a big effort in the horizontal direction while [el-get] offers an easy way to setup external packages which are usualy more vertical. Preamble offers a opionated compromise integration between both. [el-get] organize all the specific customization of each packages in the ~/.emacs.d/packages.d/ directory within the corresponding init-<package>.el file. [Preamble] mimic [Prelude] in organizing functionalities in modules.

Other non-custom-mode specific customization are organized as follow:

  • defaults.el for classical general customization
  • visual.el for everything related to frames and visual buffer interaction
  • key-bindings.el for customized key-bindings except for external packages
  • mac.el for Mac OS X specific customization

What's in there?

The programming environment is optimized for Python, Javascript, CoffeScript, HTML, CSS.

Keybindings

  • C Shorthand for the ctrl-key
  • M Shorthand for the meta-key (bound to cmd on my mac settings)
  • S Shorthand for the shift-key

Files

  • C-x C-f Open a file. Starts in the current directory. You can use C-SPC or C-@ to save your current set of match and plug in more criteria.
  • C-x f Open a recently visited file
  • C-x p Open a file in the current project (based on .git ++)
  • C-x C-s Save this file
  • C-x C-w Save as ...
  • C-x C-j Jump to this files current directory
  • C-x b Switch to another open file (buffer)
  • C-x C-b List all open files (buffers)

Cut copy and paste

  • C-space Start marking stuff. C-g to cancel.
  • C-w Cut (aka kill)
  • C-k Cut till end of line
  • M-w Copy
  • C-y Paste (aka yank)
  • M-y Cycle last paste through previous kills
  • C-x C-y Choose what to paste from previous kills

General

  • C-g Quit out of whatever mess you've gotten yourself into
  • M-x Run a command by name
  • C-_ Undo
  • M-_ Redo
  • C-x u Show the undo-tree
  • C-x g Open magit. It's a magical git interface for emacs
  • C-x C-h Open helm-mini
  • C-; Toggle iedit-mode to edit all the occurences of a region

Navigation

  • C-arrow Move past words/paragraphs
  • C-a Go to indentation, then start of line
  • C-e Go to end of line
  • M-g M-g Go to line number
  • C-x C-i Go to symbol
  • C-s Search forward. Press C-s again to go further.
  • C-r Search backward. Press C-r again to go further.

Window management

  • C-x 0 Close this window
  • C-x 1 Close other windows
  • C-x 2 Split window horizontally
  • C-x 3 Split window vertically
  • S-arrow Jump to window to the left/right/up/down
  • M-arrow Jump to window to the left/right/up/down
  • C-c b Create a scratch buffer to play inside

Terminal

  • C-c t Call a terminal session or join existing one
  • C-c n Jump to next terminal
  • C-c p Jump to previous terminal
  • F8 Open a terminal on the bottom of the buffer

Project management

  • C-x C-h helm-mini
  • C-c h helm-mini projectile

Mode Line

Instead of a long list of Major and Minor modes that are active, we use greek and russian symbols representing those modes. Capital letters are used for major modes.

  • Λ Clojure mode
  • τ undo-tree
  • γ yas
  • υ volatile highlights
  • ηζ nREPL minor mode
  • α auto-complete
  • φ paredit
  • ιρις rainbow mode
  • Π Python mode
  • п Projectile mode
  • Мд Markdown mode
  • ел emacs lisp mode
  • р ropemacs mode
  • Коф coffee-mode
  • Лес less-css mode

Inspirational dotemacs

This repository is an emacs settings heavily relying on the new Emacs 24 features and the el-get alternative package manager.

Other indirect contributors include: