BG's Emacs Setup

A fresh approach to managing my Emacs setup.

Still a work in progress.

Philosophy

• No magic
• Simple
• Extensible
• Well documented (lol!)

Directory Structure

~/.emacs.d
    - etc # auxilliary files, snippets, etc.
    - packs # different library/config "packs"
    - init.el # the main entry point

Structure of Packs

Every pack is a logical group of Emacs Lisp libraries and corresponding configuration files. Each pack is designed to be completely stand-alone except certain functions to load the config files from the correct directory which are provided by the init.el file.

Each pack must have this structure -

my-pack/
    - lib/ # emacs Lisp library files
    - config/ # config files for each library as needed
    - init.el # entry point for the pack

Take a look at the notes pack for more information.

Initialisation

All the packs are loaded from the top-level init.el file so you can enable/disable loading of packs from there. Look at the bottom of the said file for more information.

Included Packs

• Core
  • core Emacs configuration
• Power
  • configuration for power-users
• Programming
  • settings for different programming languages
• Themes
  • colour theme settings
• Notes
  • note-taking using Deft & Org
• Clojure
  • for Clojure programming
• User
  • a special pack for user-level customizations
  • always loaded last

Supported Programming Languages

• Clojure
• Python
• Go
• Haskell
• JavaScript
• HTML/CSS/SCSS
• Lua
• SML
• Racket (via Geiser)
• OCaml (via Tuareg)
• Scala (via scala-mode2 & ensime)

Note for OSX Users

If the display looks weird, Comment out the following lines in ~/.emacs.d/packs/core/config/osx.el

;;; frames
;; (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 23)
;;                             (left . 0)
;;                             (width . 168)
;;                             (height . 48)))

Contributing

I welcome any contribution to the project in the form of patches, etc. I am generally looking for any sort of configuration/tweak that is useful for Emacs beginners and hackers alike.

Even though I may choose to not include something as default, I am fine with keeping them when commented out/disabled by default.

If you have a patch, please send me a pull-request and then we can discuss.

In case of any questions, feel free to email me - b.ghose @ freegeek.in.

License

Copyright belongs to the respective authors. Everything else is in the Public Domain.

Acknowledgements

Based on the work of Sam Aaron.