My Emacs configuration

I like modal editing and Vim’s keybindings, but also Lisp and the extensibility it enables in Emacs. This is my attempt to combine the advantages of both editors.

Note that it is written with my particular use-cases in mind (for example, keybindings are optimized for the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout). You probably don’t want to use this configuration verbatim; instead, feel free to copy parts of it into your own.

Compatibility

Requires Emacs 24.4 or newer.

Installation

Just clone this repository into ~/.emacs.d. On the first launch, Emacs will download and install all the necessary packages into ~/.emacs.d/elpa.

Some of the packages used

evil

Most comprehensive Vim emulation I’ve ever seen.

ido, ido-ubiquitous, smex, flx-ido

Fuzzy completion in the minibuffer.

smartparens

Manipulating entire s-expressions at once. Useful for more languages than paredit.

auto-complete, yasnippet

Completion with snippets. I use auto-complete instead of company-mode mostly because of inertia.

flycheck, flyspell

On-the-fly checking of syntax/spelling.

magit

An efficient Git interface.

use-package

Syntactic sugar that simplifies package configuration.

cedet, srefactor, emr

Language-aware features.