My Emacs Configuration

My Emacs configuration, that I'm cheekily calling hamacs is a literate programming model heavily inspired by my recent journey into Henrik Lissner's Doom Emacs and Spacemacs. I used both extensively, but decided that I would roll my own as Emacs people tend to be control freaks (at least a little bit).

The other advantage to rolling yer own is that you are more likely to use what you add, leading to less bloat, and a more fun experience.

Why yes, feel free to steal whatever you find interesting, as sharing is what makes our community great. Notice that functions and features that I have written begin with ha-, however, everything else is either stock Emacs or a package that I download using straight (see bootstrap for how) and configured with use-package (see either this introduction or this wiki page for details)… meaning that most blocks of code should just work on its own. Hit me up with questions, @howardabrams. If you want to try this out, after installing Emacs, and cloning this repo, run:

./initialize

This creates ~/.emacs.d/init.el that starts the process loading the files:

bootstrap.org

configures straight and loads basic libraries the rest of the code depends on. It then loads the following files in order:

ha-config.org

contains most of my configuration, setting up my sequence key menus, evil, etc.

ha-display.org

sets up the visual aspects of an Emacs GUI, including themes, fonts and the dashboard.

ha-org.org

configures the basics for org-mode formatted files. Specific features, however, come from their own files, however.

ha-org-word-processor.org

attempts to make Org files visually look like what one might see in a word processor, including turning off the colors for headers, and instead increasing their size.

ha-org-clipboard.org

automatically converting HTML from a clipboard into Org-formatted content.

ha-org-journaling.org

for writing journal entries and tasks.

ha-org-publishing.org

code for publishing my website, www.howardism.org.

ha-org-sprint.org

functions for working with the my Org-focused sprint files.

ha-remoting.org

my interface to systems using SSH and Vterm.

ha-email.org

reading email using notmuch in a Hey fashion.

ha-feed-reader.org

configuration of elfeed as well as my RSS feeds.

ha-aux-apps.org

optional applications, like Twitter and Telegram.

ha-capturing-notes.org

my engineering notebook.

ha-agendas.org

attempts to "supe-up" my task list.

ha-irc.org

connection to IRC servers using rcirc and bitlbee.

ha-passwords.org

code for generating passwords.

ha-programming.org

configuration for all programming languages, or at least, the simple ones.

ha-programming-python.org

configuration for working with Python and LSP.

Note: Other functions and files come from essays written on my blog. To help with this, see support/final-initialize.el file.