.emacs.d

My personal .emacs.d

ℹ️ This config is only intended for use with Emacs 27+ (because of early-init.el).

Key features

• 💯 xah-fly-keys: for powerful and ergonomics-based modal editing
• ⚡ a super duper quick Emacs, with lots of package-loading deferred
• 🎃 multiple tweaks inspired from Doom Emacs
• 📦 a good amount of packages to help, but not too much
• 🌐 a simple format for adding new languages configurations, thanks to Emacs Bootstrap

Based on Emacs Bootstrap, but why ?

When I picked up Emacs, I hacked together a clunky .emacs, ~1500 lines of copy-pasted code that I didn't understand. Then I found Emacs Bootstrap, and I got an organized config in 3 clicks. It is easy, quick, simple and well organized.
Nowadays, my elisp-fu has graduated from white to yellow belt, so I maintain my config entirely myself. But It was a good base config when I started.

Xah-fly-keys

Xah-fly-keys is the most important part of the config. It is a modal editing interface for Emacs. You could use any modal editing system, but I really like the core defaults from xah-fly-keys.

I use my own version because I dislike some features, but like Emacs-bootstrap, it is a good base.

Many programming languages

This config has evolved with my programming needs, and is now supporting multiple programming languages:

• JS and TS
• Web in general
• Clojure
• C/C++
• Rust

These are the main ones.

Markdown and LaTeX are also supported.

Use-package, and deferred loading

I extensively use John Wiegley's use-package. With modes, hooks and commands, you can defer loading of many packages, and do it really easily. In addition, packages configuration is much more easier with it.

Nice work John! 👍

Installation

External programs needed

• ripgrep (rg command, ripgrep package on Arch)
• a Nerd font (probably Symbols Nerd Fonts Mono, available as ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono on Arch)
• Blobmoji font (noto-fonts-emoji-blob on Arch)

Initial setup

You should have an logo for the dashboard in private/logos/logo.{png,webp}. Prioritizes WEBP for transparency in Emacs 29 (or XPM).

TODOS

• Add LSP keybindings
• Revamp entire main keymap
• (Maybe?) integrate treesit

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⚠️ If you intend to use this configuration, it is heavily opinionated, hacky in some ways, not optimal in others.