Mark Shroyer's Emacs Dotfiles

This is my global Emacs configuration directory, ~/.emacs.d/. It contains my Emacs settings and abbreviation files, as well as numerous extensions for the editor which I have either copied from elsewhere or written myself.

Installation

Aside from checking out this repository to ~/.emacs.d/, no special installation actions are required on Unix-like systems. However, make sure you don't have an old ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.el file sitting around on your system, as this will supersede ~/.emacs.d/init.el in GNU Emacs's search path.

Also, if you're installing on Windows, set the environment variable HOME to reference your home directory. If this variable is not set my Emacs startup script will attempt to infer it from the Windows HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables, but I don't know how reliable this method is.

External Dependencies

External dependencies are installed from the ELPA and MELPA Stable repositories, and are managed using the selected packages mechanism. When setting up this configuration on a new machine, install these dependencies by running:

M-x package-install-selected-packages

Then restart Emacs.

Local Customizations

My startup script will look for a file named ~/.emacs.local.el; if it is found, this file will be loaded during Emacs startup. This provides a method for making machine-local customizations to the Emacs startup.

Provided below is a collection of some local customization recipes that may prove useful:

Default coding system for new files

(setf (default-value 'buffer-file-coding-system) 'utf-8-unix)

Common Lisp implementation for SLIME

(when (featurep 'slime)
  (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp")
  (add-to-list 'slime-lisp-implementations '(clisp ("clisp"))))

Tramp settings compatible with both Cygwin and NT Emacs

(if (eql system-type 'windows-nt)
(setq tramp-default-method "plink")
  (setq tramp-default-method "ssh"))

Specify edit servers to run

(setq local-server-selection '(:emacs))

PostScript printing on Windows

Adjust ps-lpr-command for your machine's gswin32c.exe executable path.

(setq ps-lpr-command "C:/Program Files/gs/gs8.64/bin/gswin32c.exe"
  ps-lpr-switches '("-q" "-dNOPAUSE" "-dBATCH" "-sDEVICE=mswinpr2")
  ps-printer-name t)

Geographic details

(setq calendar-longitude -80.39
  calendar-latitude 27.64
  calendar-location-name "Vero Beach, FL")

(setq calendar-time-zone -300
  calendar-standard-time-zone-name "EST"
  calendar-daylight-time-zone-name "EDT")

Enable a color theme

(setq local-color-theme 'color-theme-classic)

M-x sudoku skill level

(setq sudoku-level "medium")