starter-kit-misc.el

;;; starter-kit-misc.el --- Saner defaults and goodies: miscellany
;;
;; Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Phil Hagelberg and contributors
;;
;; Author: Phil Hagelberg <technomancy@gmail.com>
;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/StarterKit
;; Version: 2.0.2
;; Keywords: convenience

;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.

;;; Commentary:

;; "Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the
;; same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger
;; and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish."
;; -Neal Stephenson, "In the Beginning was the Command Line"

;; This file contains setqs and things that aren't bindings or defuns.

;;; License:

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
;; as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
;; of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

;;; Code:

(when window-system
  (setq frame-title-format '(buffer-file-name "%f" ("%b")))
  (tooltip-mode -1)
  (mouse-wheel-mode t)
  (blink-cursor-mode -1))

;; can't do it at launch or emacsclient won't always honor it
(add-hook 'before-make-frame-hook 'esk-turn-off-tool-bar)

(setq visible-bell t
      inhibit-startup-message t
      color-theme-is-global t
      sentence-end-double-space nil
      shift-select-mode nil
      mouse-yank-at-point t
      uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward
      whitespace-style '(face trailing lines-tail tabs)
      whitespace-line-column 80
      ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain
      oddmuse-directory "~/.emacs.d/oddmuse"
      save-place-file "~/.emacs.d/places"
      backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/backups")))
      diff-switches "-u")

(add-to-list 'safe-local-variable-values '(lexical-binding . t))
(add-to-list 'safe-local-variable-values '(whitespace-line-column . 80))

;; Set this to whatever browser you use
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-firefox)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-macosx-browser)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-windows-browser)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-kde)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-epiphany)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-default-w3m)
;; (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
;;       browse-url-generic-program "~/src/conkeror/conkeror")

;; Highlight matching parentheses when the point is on them.
(show-paren-mode 1)

;; ido-mode is like magic pixie dust!
;; (ido-mode t)
;;(ido-ubiquitous t)
(setq ido-enable-prefix nil
      ido-enable-flex-matching t
      ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length nil
      ido-create-new-buffer 'always
      ido-use-filename-at-point 'guess
      ido-use-virtual-buffers t
      ido-handle-duplicate-virtual-buffers 2
      ido-max-prospects 10)

(set-default 'indent-tabs-mode nil)
(set-default 'indicate-empty-lines t)
(set-default 'imenu-auto-rescan t)

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
;; flyspell is very slow
;;(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)

(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(defalias 'auto-tail-revert-mode 'tail-mode)

(random t) ;; Seed the random-number generator

;; Hippie expand: at times perhaps too hip
(dolist (f '(try-expand-line try-expand-list try-complete-file-name-partially))
  (delete f hippie-expand-try-functions-list))

;; Add this back in at the end of the list.
(add-to-list 'hippie-expand-try-functions-list 'try-complete-file-name-partially t)

(eval-after-load 'grep
  '(when (boundp 'grep-find-ignored-files)
     (add-to-list 'grep-find-ignored-files "*.class")))

;; Cosmetics

;; (eval-after-load 'diff-mode
;;   '(progn
;;      (set-face-foreground 'diff-added "green4")
;;      (set-face-foreground 'diff-removed "red3")))

;; (eval-after-load 'magit
;;   '(progn
;;      (set-face-foreground 'magit-diff-add "green4")
;;      (set-face-foreground 'magit-diff-del "red3")))

;; Get around the emacswiki spam protection
(eval-after-load 'oddmuse
  (add-hook 'oddmuse-mode-hook
            (lambda ()
              (unless (string-match "question" oddmuse-post)
                (setq oddmuse-post (concat "uihnscuskc=1;" oddmuse-post))))))

(provide 'starter-kit-misc)
;;; starter-kit-misc.el ends here