One more custom Emacs config

Table of Contents

• Highlights
• Installation and maintenance
  • Clone
  • Update and install packages
  • Install fonts (optional)
  • Run
  • Profile startup
  • Debug init
  • Minimal config for testing

Highlights

1. Tested on Arch Linux with Emacs 25.1 only

2. Fonts support made easy per font/Unicode block/size

   

3. Fast initialization (use-package and more). 0.6 sec. for emacsclient, 0.7 sec for emacs with SSD on Linux, measured by (emacs-init-time)

4. All temporary files (history,session,tramp, etc.) in volatile directory

5. Custom command line arguments to use various runtime profiles. See Makefile for example usage

6. Beautiful alect themes, rainbow-delimiters, spaceline

   

Installation and maintenance

Clone

git clone https://github.com/igorepst/igemacs

Update and install packages

make up - this is to separate packages maintenance from their usage

Install fonts (optional)

• DejaVu Sans Mono
• Symbola
• Noto Sans Symbols
• Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Run

• if cloned to .emacs.d: emacs or emacsclient

• if cloned to another directory: make run

Profile startup

make profile

Debug init

make debug

Minimal config for testing

make min