t0yv0-emacs

Personal Emacs config.

How do you use Emacs?

I came to Emacs for an esolang (Coq, OCaml, Haskell) IDE but am staying for a nice and stable text editing platform. As of 2024, I use Emacs daily for:

developing code in Go and TypeScript
keeping scratchpads and daily notes in Org
accumulating reference notes in Org-roam

I occasionally enjoy the instant gratification of coding up tiny extensions in Elisp

I mostly use a Mac OS base system these days, but have used both Linux and Windows in the past.

Why is this public

No good answer here, only “why not?” spirit. I occasionally get a “you’re holding it wrong” comment from the Emacs community watching me struggle or reinvent wheels. I do enjoy this. But in the end I am an incorrigible autodidact determined to go at my own slow pace. Emacs and my habits around it provide an island of stability in the churning waters of tech.

Why does this use Nix?

I find it valuable to opt out of updates on the base C or Node-based packages (i.e. mermaid-cli) to avoid my setup from being broken when I need stability. Nix seems very suitable for this particular job.

What can I use?

I expect there is not much of interest in this repo for reuse purposes. I move Elisp experiments that last a few years to separate repos, perhaps some of these can be of general interest:

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