Emacs configuration

installing emacs

I use Emacs Mac Port. Install it using homebrew as described in the readme. Don’t forget to run `brew update` before installing it.

configuration

Rename your old `~/.emacs.d` and `~/.emacs` if they exist.

Fork this repo and then clone it to your `~/.emacs.d`:

cd ~/
git clone <your-git-repo> ./emacs.d

You might want to add a `secret.org` file to your `~/.emacs.d` folder after you clone the repo to configure personal settings. It’s going to be ignored by git. The file will be evaluated during startup if it exists.

Example of the file:

#+TITLE: configuration excluded from github
#+STARTUP: overview

* personal information
  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
    (setq user-full-name "Your Name"
          user-email-address "your@email"
          calendar-latitude 32.0808800
          calendar-longitude 34.7805700
          calendar-location-name "Tel Aviv, Israel")
  #+END_SRC

When you run emacs for the first time after cloning the configuration, it’s going to take few minutes to install all the packages. Be patient.

ongoing maintenance

Important packages like cider and clj-refactor are installed from melpa-stable repo because i’m not brave enough to use unstable versions for stuff i really need to work every day. If you have another package you want to pin, see how cider is installed. Running package-refresh-contents before package-install is really important.

Update your packages using package-list-packages interactive command when you feel like it, or when you find a bug.