emacsadventures - my adventure of setting up Emacs

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Introduction

This is my adventure of setting up emacs for everyday use. I was inspired by Spacemacs and super-emacs. My goals for the configuration are

• Asthetic - an eye pleasing emacs
• Fast and productive
• emacsy - keep emacs behavior and add only when necessary, except now added EVIL mode

After I started learning Vim, I have switched to EVIL mode. After this I (re) discovered doom-emacs which is almost on the same lines as my needs but is a much more advanced emacs “distribution”. I am currently evaluating the same for long term usage.

A very similar config I found is M-EMACS

Screenshots

How To Install

If you want to use my configuration, following are the steps

• Install Source Code Pro Fonts
• Clone this repository
• Link the resulting directory from your .emacs.d
• Add following line to your init.el (load "~/.emacs.d/emacsadventures/loadMyConfig.el")
• Start emacs
• look for any errors as some packages may fail to install
• Install the failed packages manually by running following M-x packages-install-package
• Install all-the-icons by running M-x all-the-icons-install-fonts
• On windows, you might need to install them from a resulting directory
• Restart emacs and begin your adventure

How To Customize

You can customize the configuration the usual emacs way.

• Start in the loadMyConfig.el
• comment out sections which you do not want
• Add yout personal configuration in the ‘private’ directory
• The personal configuration is loaded as a last step

User Guide [Needs work]

Keybinding Quickref - This is loaded in every session - search for buffer named ”emacsadventures-keyref”

Please find the user guide at User Guide

Cheatsheets

All the important cheatsheets are located in the quickref directory

• Markdown mode User Guide
• Taskpaper mode User Guide

Feedback

I would be very pleased if you give me feedback to improve this configuration. I will try to improve as I go along using it. Thank You.

TODOs

-[ ] Move setq from :config/:init to :custom as is the suggestion for use-package

Further Research

Furhter research for improvements

• Replace Neotree with Treemacs
• emacs dashboard
• page-break-lines
• Fill-Column-Indicator
• taskpaper-mode
• buffer tabs - nerdtab
• Experiment with Straight.el package manager