This is my setup for the GNU Emacs editor. It builds on Steve Purcell's emacs.d by making that configuration feel a bit more natural to me - a seasoned vi/Vim user.
In late 2017 I put my Emacs-specific settings into a sub-directory of my dotfiles repo.
By May 2020 I accumulated many commits that configured Emacs to work the way I liked to work with Vim.
Once after I cloned my dotfiles on several minimal Linux VMs I realized I would never use the GUI-based Emacs settings on those VMs.
That is when I forked Purcell's repo and started to track changes to upstream in this repo here.
The advantage of this approach means I can keep my dotfiles and emacs.d repos independent of each other.
Over the years of using of Purcell's emacs.d repo, I found it to be dependable (logically consistent and stable) yet seamlessly extensible to work with my own vi/Vim setup of Evil mode and General.
The eye-candy features Purcell keeps adding to his emacs.d has made Emacs truly a delight for me to keep using.
Thanks Steve!
If you are new to Purcell's setup, read his README (archived here since July 2020).
Purcell's emacs.d repo proved dependable (logically consistent and remarkably stable) over
the years I used it. The eye-candy features Purcell keeps adding to his emacs.d setup has made
Emacs truly a delight that I enjoy using. Thanks Steve! If you are new to Purcell's setup, read his
README (archived here since July 2020).
Unlike Purcell whose emacs.d repo is dependable, this repo can be and, at times, has been unstable because I value a linear commit history and will use the first Elisp or Emacs settings that work the way I want.
I track Purcell's upstream repo and apply my own settings to upstream master before merging it back here.
This means I squash upstream often using git push -f.
Gasp!
This means I may squash, remove, or amend commits and their contents at any time (and I often do so).
All my vi/Vim related setup is kept in init-0xMF-evil.el. As of July 2022, I use Emacs daily. This means I know more Emacs and Elisp than when I started (late 2017). So while my knowledge of Emacs and Elisp is more than when I began (late 2017) it is still limited. I use the first edit that works the way I want Emacs to work like how I use Vim.
Experienced Emacs users may find my use of Evil mode and General in all their awesome glory appalling. Whereas experienced vi/Vim users may find some of my keybinding choices horribly confusing. At times I default to sticking with the Emacs keybindings and Emacs way of doing things.
This repo tracks upstream and applies all my changes (using git push -f) on top of upstream (to maintain a linear commit history on this repo) meaning the side-effect of using git push -f always happens whenever conflict changes are brought in from upstream.
I cannot provide support for Emacs or Elisp that I configured here.
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